AMENDMENT TO IMPROVE THE BILL - S. 2507

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• Document Release Date: June 26, 2018
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AMENDMENT NO. Calendar No.
Purpose: To improve the bill.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES-106th Cong., 2d Seas.
S. 2507
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year .2001 for intel-
ligence and intelligence-related activities of the United
States Government, the Community Management Ac-
count, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement
and Disability System., and for other purposes.
Referred to the Committee on
and ordered to be printed
Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed
AlvilINDMENTS intended to be proposed by Mr. SHELBY (for
himself and Mr, BRYAN)
Viz:
1 On page 10, strike line 11 and all that follows
2 through page 12, line 2, and insert the following:
3 "(a) PRomilmoN.----Whoever, being an officer or
4 employee of the United States, a former or retired officer
5 or employee of the United States, any other person with
6 authorized access to classified information, or any other
7 person formerly with authorized access to classified infor-
8 mation, knowingly and willfully discloses, or attempts to
9 disclose, any classified information acquired as a result of
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1 such person's authorized access to classified information
2 to a person (other than an officer or employee of the
3 United States) who is not authorized access to such elassi-
4 fled information, knowing that the person is not author-
5 ized access to such classified information, shall be fined
6 under this title, imprisoned not more than 3 years, or
7 both.
8 "(b) CONSTRUCTION OP PROHIBITION.�NOthilig in
9 this section shall be construed to establish criminal liabil-
10 ity for disclosure of classified information in accordance
1.1 with applicable law to the following:
12 "(1) Any justice or judge of a court of the
13 United States established pursuant to article IIT of
14 the Constitution of the United States.
15 "(2) The Senate or House of Representatives,
16 or any committee or subcommittee thereof, or joint
17 committee thereof, or any member of Congress.
18 "(3) A person or persons acting on behalf of a
19 foreign power (including an international organiza-
20 tion) if the disclosure-
21 "(A) is .made, by an officer or employee of
22 th.e United States who has been authorized to
23 make the disclosure; and
24 `-`(B) is within the scope of such officer's or
25 employee's duties.
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"(4) Any other person authorized to receive the
2 classified information.
3 "(c) DEPTNITIONS.--Tn this section:
4 "(1) The term 'authorized', in the case of ac-
5 cess to classified information, means having author-
6 ity or permission to have access to the classified. in-
formation pursua.nt to the provisions of a statute,
8 Executive Order, regulation, or directive of the head
9 of any department or agency wh.o is empowered to
10 ela.ssify information, an order of any United States.
11 court, or a provision of any Resolution of the Senate
12 or Rule .of the House of Representatives which gov-
13 erns release of classified information by the such
14 House of Congress.
15 "(2) The term 'classified inf ion.' means in-
16 formation or material d clearly
17 marked or represented., o person knows or
18 has reason to believe has been properly classified by
19 appropriate authorities, pursuant to the provision.s
20 of a statute or Executive Order, as requiring protec-
21 tion against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of
22 nation& security,
23
24 their directio
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elrinin.g on , s :e acting at,
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