[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5772 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5772

To amend section 552a of title 5, United States Code, to unequivocally 
authorize an award of provable damages, including damages that are not 
                           pecuniary damages.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 1, 2014

 Mr. Connolly introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 552a of title 5, United States Code, to unequivocally 
authorize an award of provable damages, including damages that are not 
                           pecuniary damages.

    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 ``Safeguarding Individual Privacy 
Against Government Invasion Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. CIVIL REMEDIES UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT.

    Section 552a(g)(4)(A) of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
     (a) by striking ``actual damages'' and inserting ``provable 
damages, including damages that are not pecuniary damages,''; and
    (b) by striking ``, but in no case shall a person entitled to 
recovery receive less than the sum of $1,000'' and inserting ``or the 
sum of $1,000, whichever is greater''.
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