US Congress Senate Bill 3074 (Prior Session Legislation)

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May 9 2012 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Password Protection Act of 2012 - Amends the federal criminal code to subject to a fine any employer who knowingly and intentionally: (1) compels or coerces any person to provide the employer with a password or similar information to access a protected computer not owned by such employer; or (2) discharges, disciplines, discriminates, or threatens to take such actions, against any person who fails to authorize access to such computer, has filed a complaint or instituted a proceeding regarding such action, or testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding. Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the authority of a court of competent jurisdiction to grant equitable relief in a civil action, if the court believes that the information sought to be obtained is relevant to protecting the intellectual property, a trade secret, or confidential business information of the party seeking relief. Exempts an employer's actions from such prohibition if: (1) the employer discharges or disciplines an individual for good cause; (2) a state enacts a law that specifically waives such prohibition with respect to a particular class of state or agency employees and the employer's action relates to an employee in such class; or (3) an executive agency, military department, or other executive branch entity specifically waives the prohibition with respect to a particular class of employees who may have access to classified information.

Password Protection Act of 2012

Sen Blumenthal, Richard	Sen Akaka, Daniel K.	Sen Klobuchar, Amy	Sen Sanders, Bernard
Sen Schumer, Charles E.	Sen Shaheen, Jeanne	Sen Wyden, Ron

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-05-09	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB5684 (Same As) 2012-06-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SN03074:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s3074is/pdf/BILLS-112s3074is.pdf