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Email Privacy Act
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 to make a series of technical changes to clarify that the voluntary disclosure prohibitions and exceptions to such prohibitions apply to the content of communications regardless of whether the communications are held in storage or have been read.
(Sec. 3) Additionally, the bill amends the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 to revise the standards for when a governmental entity may compel disclosure of communications content from a third party service provider. The bill removes the authority of a government entity to acquire the contents of a communication with a court order. The government must have a warrant to acquire the contents of a communication from a third party provider. A governmental entity that receives a subscriber's records or information from a provider is not required to provide notice to such person; however, a provider may notify a subscriber of a request to disclose information to the government.
(Sec. 4) A governmental entity may apply for a court order directing a provider, for up to 180 days, to refrain from notifying any person that the provider has been required to disclose communications or records. Additionally, a governmental entity is allowed to seek one or more extensions of the delayed-notice order for periods of up to 180 days each. The government does not have to demonstrate with certainty that an adverse result will occur from notification; it only has to demonstrate that an adverse result is likely to occur.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 699 as passed House amended on Apr 27, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Apr 27, 2016
Email Privacy Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
419 Yea 0 Nay 14 not voting
Crossed both parties No voting member broke with their own party.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 699 and vote against it. 233 signed when it was filed.
Showing the first 250 of 314 cosponsors, which is the largest page congress.gov serves.
Organizations that named H.R. 699 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
379 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.