US Congress House Bill 5684 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 58)
Status: Introduced on May 9 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-06-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security 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. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Bruce Braley [D-IA]
Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. John Carney [D-DE]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]
Rep. Hansen Clarke [D-MI]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Jim Cooper [D-TN]
Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]
Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Bob Filner [D-CA]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Rep. Charles Gonzalez [D-TX]
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Janice Hahn [D-CA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. James Himes [D-CT]
Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D-NY]	Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ]	Rep. Jesse Jackson [D-IL]	Rep. William Keating [D-MA]
Rep. Larry Kissell [D-NC]	Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D-OH]	Rep. Sander Levin [D-MI]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]
Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]
Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]	Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]
Rep. Laura Richardson [D-CA]	Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]	Rep. Steven Rothman [D-NJ]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]
Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Loretta Sanchez [D-CA]	Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-OR]
Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Rep. Fortney Stark [D-CA]	Rep. Betty Sutton [D-OH]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]
Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-06-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
2012-05-09	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

SB3074 (Same As) 2012-05-09 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5684/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr5684/BILLS-112hr5684ih.pdf