| Bill # |
Name (Sponsor) |
Summary |
Status |
| HR 5646 | Stop Taking Our Health Privacy (STOHP) Act of 2002 (Markey) | To restore standards to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information that were weakened by the August 2002 modifications, and for other purposes |
10/16/02: Bill introduced. |
| HR 4561 | Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act (Barr) | ensure federal agencies consider the potential impact on citizens' privacy, and require a privacy impact analysis be included, when agencies circulate rules or regulations for public comment. |
4/24/02: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
5/1/02: Hearings held in the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
7/9/02: Subcommittee passes bill, moves to full Judiciary Committee.
9/26/02: Judiciary Committee passes bill.
10/7/02: Bill passes House. |
HR 2975
 Enacted as the USA PATRIOT Act, HR 3162
| "Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Act of 2001." (Sensenbrenner) | Broadly expands the federal government's authority to conduct electronic surveillance, provides for broad sharing of data throughout the executive branch, and includes a number of provisions for the detention of legal aliens. CDT has prepared several in-depth analyses of this bill and its companions. |
10/2/01: Introduced and referred to the House Judiciary, Intelligence, International Relations, Resources, and Ways and Means Committees.
10/3/01: Judiciary Committee markup held.
10/4/01: Passed by Judiciary Committee, 34-0.
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HR 4678
CDT Analysis | Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2002 (Stearns) | To protect and enhance consumer privacy, | 5/8/02: Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations
5/17/02: Referred to Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer production
9/24/02: Hearing held in House Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade & Consumer Protection Testimony |
| HR 4598 | Homeland Security Information Sharing Act (Chambliss/Harman) | To provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities. Requires the President to direct coordination among the intelligence agencies. | 4/25/02: Referred to Committee on Intelligence and to the Committee on the Judiciary.
5/6/02: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
6/4/02: Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled.
6/13/02: Reported with an amendment by House Judiciary.
6/25/02 Passed House. |
| S 2452 | National Homeland Security and Combatting Terrorism Act of 2002 (Lieberman) | to establish the Department of National Homeland Security and the National Office for Combating Terrorism. | 5/2/02: Referred to Committee on Governmental Affairs
5/22/02: reported with amendments favorably.
6/24/02: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar. |
| HR 4640 | To provide criminal penalties for providing false information
in registering a domain name on the Internet. (Coble/Berman) | Would make it a federal crime to provide material and misleading false contact information in registering for a domain name. |
5/2/02: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
5/8/02: Referred to Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
5/22/02: Subcommittee oversight hearing on the accuracy of the Whois database. |
| S 1742 | A bill to prevent the crime of identity theft, mitigate the
harm to individuals victimized by identity theft, and for other
purposes. (Cantwell) | not yet available |
11/29/2001: Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee
3/20/02: Committee on Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information hearings held.
5/16/02: Ordered to be reported with amendment.
5/21/02: Reported to the Senate without a written report. |
S 2201
[more information] | Online Personal Privacy Act (Hollings) | A bill to protect the online
privacy of individuals who use the Internet. | 4/18/02: Referred to House Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 4/25/02: Hearings held.
5/16/02: Committee on Commerce Consideration and Markup session held.
5/17/02: Ordered to be reported by committee |
| S 2492 | Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act (Cleland) | To require that agencies, in promulgating rules, take into consideration the impact of such rules on the privacy of individuals, and for other purposes. |
5/9/02: Introduced. |
| HR 4633 | Driver's License Modernization Act of 2002 (Moran) | To establish standards for State programs for
the issuance of drivers' licenses and identification cards. | 5/1/02: Referred to House Committee on Transportation, and in addition
to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Science.
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| S 1928 | to amend section 222 of the Communications Act of 1934 to require affirmative written consent by a customer to the release of customer proprietary network information. (Wellstone) | Requires affirmative written consent (opt-in) by a customer to the release of customer proprietary network information. | 2/11/02: Referred to Senate Commerce Committee |
| S 2137 | Family Privacy and Security Act of 2002 (Landrieu) | Would mandate creation and use of a new a top-level Internet domain expressly for material "harmful to minors." |
4/16/02: Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce |
HR 3162
| Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 (Sensenbrenner) | To deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes. CDT has prepared several in-depth analyses of this bill and its companions. | 10/23/01: Introduced in the House. 10/26/01: Signed into law. |
S 1510
Enacted as the USA PATRIOT Act, HR 3162 | Uniting and Strengthening America (USA) Act of 2001 (Daschle) | Senate version of the anti-terrorism package (see also H.R. 2975). Broadly expands the federal government's authority to conduct electronic surveillance, provides for broad sharing of data throughout the executive branch, and includes a number of provisions for the detention of legal aliens. CDT has prepared several in-depth analyses of this bill and its companions. | 10/4/01: Introduced in the Senate. 10/9/01: Placed on the Senate legislative calendar. |
| S 1055 | Privacy Act of 2001 (Feinstein) | Requires notice before the sale of disclosure for marketing purposes of any personally identifiable information. Establishes opt-out. Sets up safe harbor. Establishes special protection for SSN and financial information. Preempts state laws. | 6/14/01: Introduced and referred to Judiciary Committee. |
| HR 2135 | Consumer Privacy Protection Act (Sawyer) | Requires notice before the disclosure of any personally identifiable information, with "opt-out" for most personally identifiable information, and affirmative "opt-in" for especially sensitive information like social security numbers and financial information. Limits the collection of non-essential personally identifiable information. Sets up a "safe harbor" for members of privacy seal and other such programs. If passed, the Act would pre-empt state laws that differ in any way. | 6/12/01: Introduced and referred to Committee on Energy and Commerce. 6/18/01: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection. |
| H.Res 159 | "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that machine-readable privacy policies and the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project specification, commonly known as the P3P specification, are important tools in protecting the privacy of Internet users, and for other purposes." (A. Smith) | Recognizes the importance of P3P in protecting Internet users' privacy and calls on members of Congress to apply P3P to their own office web sites, and on the President to order P3P implementation on federal web sites. | 6/7/01: Introduced and referred to Committees on Energy and Commerce, House Administration, and Government Reform. |
| S 851 | Citizens' Privacy Commission Act of 2001 (Thompson) | Establishes a commission to conduct a study of government privacy practices. | 5/9/01: Introduced and referred to Committees on Governmental Affairs. |
| HR 1655 | Personal Pictures Protection Act of 2001 (Green) | This bill would amend existing law to prohibit the publication of sexually explicit photos of people on the Internet without their prior consent. | 5/1/2001:Referred to Judiciary Committee.
5/9/2001:Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime. |
| HR 583 | Privacy Commission Act (Hutchinson) | "To establish the Commission for the
Comprehensive Study of Privacy Protection." | 2/13/01: Introduced and referred to Government Reform Committee.
5/8/01: Markup by the Subcommittee on Government Efficiency. |
| HR 1215 | Medical Information Protection and Research Enhancement Act of 2001 (Greenwood) | Establishes protection for medical records and other health-care related information. | 3/27/01: Introduced and referred to Committees on Energy and Commerce, and on the Judiciary.
4/16/01: Referred by Commerce Committee to Subcommittee on Health. |
| S 420 | Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001 (Grassley) | Secs. 231 and 232 limit the sale of personal information by a bankrupt company if the company had a privacy policy against disclosure | 3/15/2001: Passed Senate with amendments by Vote of 83 - 15. Text as passed Senate
3/20/2001: Received in the House. |
| HR 347 | Consumer Online Privacy and Disclosure Act (Green) | "To require the
Federal Trade Commission to prescribe regulations to protect the
privacy of personal information collected from and about individuals
on the Internet, to provide greater individual control over the collection and use of that information, and for other purposes." | 1/30/01: Introduced and referred to Commerce Committee.
2/14/01: Referred by Commerce Committee to Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection. |
| HR 237 | Consumer Internet Privacy Enhancement Act (Cannon/Eshoo) | Requires web sites to provide "clear, conspicuous, and easily understood notice" of their information practices, as well as
obvious opt-out mechanisms; prevents collection of personal information unless users have the opportunity to opt out of that
information's disclosure and use beyond the primary purpose. | 1/20/01: Introduced and referred to Commerce Committee.
2/14/01: Referred by Commerce Committee to Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection. |
| S 290 | Student Privacy Protection Act (Dodd/Shelby) | Prevents schools that receive federal funding from disclosing data gathered from students to commercial interests without parental consent. | 2/8/01: Introduced and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions |
| HR 260 | "Wireless Privacy Protection Act of 2001" (Frelinghuysen) | Requires wireless services providers to give clear notice of their disclosure practices regarding location, transaction, and crash information. Also requires express written consent by customers to that information's collection and use.
| 1/30/01: Introduced and referred to Commerce Committee. 2/14/2001: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection. |
| S 197 | Spyware Control and Privacy Protection Act of 2001 (Edwards/Hollings) | Controls spyware computer programs, which collect information about their users and transmit is back to the software company | 1/29/01: Introduced and referred to Commerce Committee. |
| HR 113 | Wireless Telephone Spam Protection Act (Holt) | Prohibits the transmission of unsolicited advertisements to mobile telephones and other wireless devices. | 1/3/01: Introduced and referred to Commerce Committee. |
| HR 112 | To prohibit the making, distribution, sale, installation, or use of an information collection device without proper labeling
or notice and consent. (Holt) | Will make information collection devices illegal if used without notice and consent of the user. | 1/3/01: Introduced and referred to Commerce Committee. |
| HR 89 | Online Privacy Protection Act of 2001 (Frelinghuysen) | Requires privacy notices on all web sites, as well as ways for users to opt-out or limit the use of their information. Also instructs the Federal Trade Commission to establish incentives and "safe harbors" that will allow sites to construct their own means of protecting privacy. Permits enforcement of the act through civil actions by state attorneys. | 1/3/01: Introduced and referred to Commerce Committee. |
