[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2544 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2544

     To require the intelligence community to use only methods of 
  interrogation authorized by the United States Army Field Manual on 
                Human Intelligence Collector Operations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2009

Ms. Schakowsky introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
          Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select)

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require the intelligence community to use only methods of 
  interrogation authorized by the United States Army Field Manual on 
                Human Intelligence Collector Operations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Legal Interrogation Procedures 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON USE OF INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES BY THE 
              INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.

    (a) Limitation.--Title XI of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
U.S.C. 442 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section:

  ``limitation on use of interrogation techniques by the intelligence 
                               community

    ``Sec. 1103.  No person in the custody or under the effective 
control of an element of the intelligence community, or a contractor or 
subcontractor of such element, regardless of nationality or physical 
location, shall be subject to any treatment or technique of 
interrogation not authorized by the United States Army Field Manual on 
Human Intelligence Collector Operations.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in the first section 
of such Act (50 U.S.C. 401 note) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new item:

``Sec. 1103. Limitation on use of interrogation techniques by the 
                            intelligence community.''.
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