Legislation· Jan 2024Sponsored by Kevin Kiley (R)
PRESS Act
Would have blocked federal agencies from forcing journalists and their phone or internet companies to reveal sources and records.
Tradeoff
Would have shielded reporters' sources and records from federal subpoenas. Exceptions would have allowed disclosure to prevent terrorism or imminent violence.
What's in it
The House passed this by on January 18, 2024. The Senate never voted on it before the Congress ended, so the bill expired.
House
Introduced
(Jun 21, 2023)
House
Committee on the Judiciary(Jun 21, 2023)
House
The Committee on Judiciary voted to send it to the floor
Reported 23 - 0(Jul 19, 2023)
Committee report H. Rept. 118-299.
House
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Jan 18, 2024)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Received from the House
on the Judiciary(Jan 22, 2024)
- Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
- Darrell E. Issa (R-CA)
- Ted Lieu (D-CA)
- Barry Moore (R-AL)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
- Russell Fry (R-SC)
- Barbara Lee (D-CA)
- Kelly Armstrong (R-ND)
- Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
- Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY)
- Daniel T. Kildee (D-MI)
- Ben Cline (R-VA)
- Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
- Ashley Hinson (R-IA)
- Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
- David G. Valadao (R-CA)
- Henry C. "Hank," Jr. Johnson (D-GA)
- Jay Obernolte (R-CA)
- Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA)