S.Amdt. 1816

SA 1816. Mr. JOHNSON of Wisconsin submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1243, making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___.

(a) No funds made available for any fiscal year beginning before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act, under this Act or any other Act, may be used by the Internal Revenue Service or the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection to require the disclosure by a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service of the contents of a wire or electronic communication that is in storage with the provider (other than a communication with respect to which the provider or an agent or employee of the provider is the originator, addressee, or intended recipient) unless the Internal Revenue Service or the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, respectively, obtains a warrant issued using the procedures described in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by a court of competent jurisdiction directing the disclosure.

(b) For purposes of this section--

(1) the terms “court of competent jurisdiction” and “remote computing service” have the meaning given those terms in section 2711 of title 18, United States Code; and

(2) the terms “electronic communication”, “electronic communication service”, and “wire communication” have the meaning given those terms in section 2510 of title 18, United States Code.