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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Oct 22, 1999
Continued Reporting of Intercepted Wire, Oral, and Electronic Communications Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to exempt from termination provisions of the Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 the reports that the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts is required to transmit to Congress each April concerning the number of applications for orders authorizing or approving wire, oral, or electronic communications interception and the number of extensions granted or denied during the preceding calendar year.(Sec. 4) Requires the Attorney General or specified other officials to report to the Administrative Office each January on the number of such orders in which encryption was encountered and whether such encryption prevented law enforcement from obtaining the plain text of communications intercepted.(Sec. 5) Directs the Attorney General to include within an annual report to Congress on pen registers and trap and trace devices information concerning: (1) the period of interceptions authorized by each order and the number and duration of any extensions of the order; (2) the offense specified in the order, application, or extension of an order; (3) the number of investigations involved; (4) the number and nature of the facilities affected; and (5) the identity, including district, of the applying investigative or law enforcement agency making the application and the person authorizing the order.
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Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] · D–VT
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Became Public Law No: 106-197.
Became Public Law No: 106-197.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate agreed to House amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2813-2814; text as Senate agreed to House amendments: CR S2813)
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to House amendments by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2813-2814; text as Senate agreed to House amendments: CR S2813)
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill.
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed without objection.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H12882-12884)
Mr. Coble asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
Committee on Judiciary discharged.
Committee on Judiciary discharged.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Received in the House.
Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S14222-14223; text of measure as passed: CR S14223; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S14222)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S14222-14223; text of measure as passed: CR S14223; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S14222)
Committee on Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 355.
Committee on Judiciary. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatch with amendments. Without written report.
Committee on Judiciary. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatch with amendments. Without written report.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13052-13053)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13052)
Introduced in Senate
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