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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2787
To amend title 18, United States Code, to require a warrant for the disclosure
of records from a provider of electronic communication service or remote
computing service, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL9, 2025
Mr. L
IEUintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to require a warrant
for the disclosure of records from a provider of electronic
communication service or remote computing service, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Warrant for Metadata 4
Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. WARRANT REQUIREMENT FOR ELECTRONIC COM-1
MUNICATION SERVICE AND REMOTE COM-2
PUTING SERVICE RECORDS. 3
(a) W
ARRANTREQUIREMENT.—Section 2703 of title 4
18, United States Code, is amended— 5
(1) in subsection (a)— 6
(A) by striking ‘‘for one hundred and 7
eighty days or less,’’; and 8
(B) by striking ‘‘A governmental entity 9
may require the disclosure by a provider of elec-10
tronic communications services of the contents 11
of a wire or electronic communication that has 12
been in electronic storage in an electronic com-13
munications system for more than one hundred 14
and eighty days by the means available under 15
subsection (b) of this section.’’; 16
(2) in subsection (c)— 17
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘other 18
information’’ and all that follows, and inserting 19
‘‘other information, including the metadata (as 20
that term is defined in section 3502 of title 44) 21
of such record or other information, pertaining 22
to a subscriber to or customer of such service 23
(not including the contents of communications) 24
only when the governmental entity obtains a 25
warrant issued using the procedures described 26
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in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (or, 1
in the case of a State court, issued using State 2
warrant procedures and, in the case of a court- 3
martial or other proceeding under chapter 47 of 4
title 10 (the Uniform Code of Military Justice), 5
issued under section 846 of that title, in accord-6
ance with regulations prescribed by the Presi-7
dent) by a court of competent jurisdiction.’’; 8
(B) by striking paragraph (2); and 9
(C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 10
paragraph (2); and 11
(3) in subsection (d) by striking ‘‘or (c)’’. 12
(b) R
ETROACTIVEEFFECT.— 13
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The amendment made by 14
subsection (a) shall have no effect on any disclosure 15
required by a governmental entity pursuant to sec-16
tion 2703(c) of title 18, United States Code, before 17
the date of enactment of this Act. 18
(2) S
UBSEQUENT DISCLOSURE ; EXPANDED DIS-19
CLOSURE.—With respect to a disclosure required by 20
a governmental entity pursuant to section 2703(c) of 21
title 18, United States Code, before the date of en-22
actment of this Act, any request for a subsequent 23
disclosure related to such disclosure or an expansion 24
of such disclosure made after the date of enactment 25
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of this Act shall be treated as a new disclosure 1
under such section (as amended by this Act). 2
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