I 111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2544 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) 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.

1.

Short title

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

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:

1103.

Limitation on use of interrogation techniques by the intelligence community

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. .