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H.R. 6019119th CongressCongress
To repeal certain provisions relating to notification to Senate offices regarding legal process on disclosure of Senate data, and for other purposes.
Sponsored by Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA) · 39 active : 39 Republicans
Latest action: Received in the Senate.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate7 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedNov 19, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govThis bill repeals the authority for a Senator to bring a civil action against the federal government if an internet service provider or the Senate Sergeant at Arms (SAA) accessed or disclosed, or accesses or discloses, data from the Senator's office to provide to a federal agency without following prescribed notice requirements. The authority applies to a qualifying instance occurring on or after January 1, 2022.
The authority for the civil action was enacted in H.R. 5371,
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the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026
, which was signed by the President on November 12, 2026. The relevant provision requires written notice from the internet service provider or the SAA to the Senate office upon receipt of any legal process seeking access or disclosure of covered data. A Senator affected by a federal violation of the provision may sue the federal government for the greater of $500,000 per violation or the actual damages, plus attorney's fees and related costs.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on House Administration · HouseReferred to
Subjects
- Civil actions and liability
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Government information and archives
- Members of Congress
- Senate
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 65Middle 30–70
- 28Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
39 activeShow all 39 cosponsors
- Chip Roy (R-TX-21)
- Derek Schmidt (R-KS-2)
- Erin Houchin (R-IN-9)
- Gabe Evans (R-CO-8)
- H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9)
- Jeff Crank (R-CO-5)
- John W. Rose (R-TN-6)
- Lauren Boebert (R-CO-4)
- Michelle Fischbach (R-MN-7)
- Scott Perry (R-PA-10)
- Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5)
- Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5)
- Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA-9)
- Brian Jack (R-GA-3)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24)
- David J. Taylor (R-OH-2)
- Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1)
- Elijah Crane (R-AZ-2)
- Jay Obernolte (R-CA-23)
- Jeff Hurd
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
