# H.R. 6019 (119th): This 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

This 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, 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.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: data_disclosure. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: debt_spending. Category: honest_money. Lane tag: prudential.
Lane: inter_branch_accountability. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: legislative_privacy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: omnibus. Category: corruption_stewardship. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: privacy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: surveillance_remedy_repeal. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: war_funding. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 301: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill removes a legal remedy against federal access to office data obtained without notice, which weakens a check on government intrusion and so carries a real concern. The scope is narrow and concerns an inter-branch remedy and its fiscal exposure, not a direct advancement of moral harm, so a mixed classification is the prudent high-level judgment.
Theological note: The measure bears on the restraint of government intrusion into private or official records and on the due process owed to those whose data is sought. Notice before compelled disclosure protects against secret or unaccountable state access, and the remedy for violations is a check on the power of the state. Repealing that check raises concern about removing accountability for unnoticed governmental access, though the bill's scope is institutional and narrow.

## Recorded votes

Roll 301: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 426 · Nay 0 · Other 7.

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