US Congress House Bill 3015 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 18-2)
Status: Introduced on June 24 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2009-06-24 - Referred to House Armed Services
Pending: House Armed Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) certify any photograph taken between September 11, 2001, and January 22, 2009, that relates to the treatment of individuals engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the U.S. Armed Forces in operations outside of the United States if the Secretary determines that disclosure of such photograph would endanger U.S. citizens or members of the Armed Forces or U.S. government employees deployed outside the United States; and (2) submit timely notice of such certification to Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to submit a renewal of a certification at any time. Provides that a certification or a renewal shall expire after three years. Exempts such a certified photograph from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but does not preclude voluntary disclosure. OPEN FOIA Act of 2009 - Amends FOIA to require statutory exemptions to its disclosure requirements to specifically cite its provision that authorizes such exemptions.

To provide that certain photographic records relating to the treatment of any individual engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside the United States shall not be subject to disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act), to amend section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide that statutory exemptions to the disclosure requirements of that Act shall specifically cite to the provision of that Act authorizing such exemptions, to ensure an open and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related legislative proposals to explicitly state such required citations, and for other purposes.

Rep. Gresham Barrett [R-SC]	Rep. Roscoe Bartlett [R-MD]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Rep. Steve Buyer [R-IN]
Rep. John Carter [R-TX]	Rep. Michael Conaway [R-TX]	Rep. John Culberson [R-TX]	Rep. Charles Dent [R-PA]
Rep. Kay Granger [R-TX]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]	Rep. Sam Johnson [R-TX]	Rep. John Kline [R-MN]
Rep. Jim Marshall [D-GA]	Rep. Jeff Miller [R-FL]	Rep. Mike J. Rogers [R-MI]	Rep. Thomas Rooney [R-FL]
Rep. Heath Shuler [D-NC]	Rep. Adrian Smith [R-NE]	Rep. Ed Whitfield [R-KY]	Rep. Frank Wolf [R-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-06-24		Referred to House Armed Services
2009-06-24		Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2009-06-24		Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

HB2712 (Related) 2009-06-04 - Referred to House Armed Services
HB2875 (Related) 2009-06-15 - Referred to House Armed Services
SB1100 (Related) 2009-05-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
SB1285 (Same As) 2009-06-18 - Referred to House Armed Services

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/3015/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr3015/BILLS-111hr3015ih.pdf