US Congress House Bill 5163 (Prior Session Legislation)

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May 18 2012 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2012 - Authorizes the presiding judge of a U.S. appellate court (including the Supreme Court) or U.S. district court to permit the photographing, electronic recording, broadcasting, or televising to the public of court proceedings over which that judge presides, except when such action would constitute a violation of the due process rights of any party. Directs: (1) a district court, upon the request of any witness in a trial proceeding other than a party, to order the face and voice of the witness to be disguised or otherwise obscured to render the witness unrecognizable to the broadcast audience of the trial proceeding; and (2) the presiding judge in a trial proceeding to inform each witness who is not a party of the right to make such request. Authorizes the Judicial Conference to promulgate mandatory guidelines with respect to the management and administration of photographing, recording, broadcasting, or televising described in this Act. Terminates a district court's authority under this Act two years after enactment of this Act.

Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2012

Rep Lungren, Daniel E.

Rep Chabot, Steve

Rep Deutch, Theodore E.

Rep Lofgren, Zoe

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-05-18	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
2012-04-27	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

HB2802 (Related) 2011-08-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
SB410 (Related) 2011-12-06 - Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. Hearings held.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN05163:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr5163ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr5163ih.pdf