A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure of classified information, and for other purposes.

Summary

Establishes criminal penalties for anyone in authorized possession or control of confidential or secret information, or who obtains such information as a result of being or having been a Federal public servant, who knowingly communicates such information to a person not authorized to receive it. Excludes from prosecution for such offenses specified areas or accomplice liability. Sets forth defenses to such crimes, including that the information communicated was not properly classified information.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 5 April 1979

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.