[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5824 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5824

        To modify certain provisions of law relating to torture.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 9, 2014

 Mr. Nadler (for himself, Mr. Conyers, and Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of 
  New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Armed Services, 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 modify certain provisions of law relating to torture.

    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 ``American Anti-Torture Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. UNIFORM STANDARDS FOR INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES APPLICABLE TO 
              INDIVIDUALS UNDER CONTROL OR CUSTODY OF THE UNITED STATES 
              GOVERNMENT.

    Subsections (a), (b), and (c) of each of section 1002 of the 
Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (title X of Public Law 109-148; 10 
U.S.C. 801 note; 119 Stat. 2739) and section 1402 of the Detainee 
Treatment Act of 2005 (title XIV of Public Law 109-163; 10 U.S.C. 801 
note; 119 Stat. 3475) are amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) In General.--No person in the custody or under the effective 
control of the United States shall be subject to any treatment or 
technique of interrogation not authorized by and listed in the United 
States Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations.
    ``(b) Applicability.--Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect 
to any person in the custody or under the effective control of the 
United States pursuant to a criminal law or immigration law of the 
United States.
    ``(c) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to 
affect the rights under the United States Constitution of any person in 
the custody or under the physical jurisdiction of the United States.''.
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