[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4839 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4839

   To prohibit the Government from requiring any person to assist in 
    devising a method for breaking the encryption of a wire or oral 
                             communication.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 22, 2016

  Mr. Salmon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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 prohibit the Government from requiring any person to assist in 
    devising a method for breaking the encryption of a wire or oral 
                             communication.

    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 ``Protect Our Devices Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF REQUIRING THE BREAKING OF ENCRYPTION OF WIRE OR 
              ORAL COMMUNICATIONS.

    No officer or entity of the Federal Government shall have any 
authority to require any person to assist in devising a method for 
breaking the encryption of a wire or oral communication as such term 
are defined for the purposes of chapter 119 of title 18, United States 
Code.
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