I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2454 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for clarification as to 
the meaning of access without authorization, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 20, 2013 
Ms. LOFGREN (for herself, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. POLIS, Ms. CLARKE, 
and Mr. DOYLE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for clari-
fication as to the meaning of access without authoriza-
tion, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Aaron’s Law Act of 
2013’’. 
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SEC. 2. CLARIFYING THAT ‘‘ACCESS WITHOUT AUTHORIZA-
TION’’ UNDER 18 U.S.C. 1030 MEANS CIR-
CUMVENTION 
OF 
TECHNOLOGICAL 
BAR-
RIERS IN ORDER TO GAIN UNAUTHORIZED 
ACCESS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1030(e)(6) of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended by— 
(1) striking ‘‘exceeds authorized access’’ and all 
that follows; and 
(2) inserting the following: ‘‘ ‘access without au-
thorization’ means— 
‘‘(A) to obtain information on a protected 
computer; 
‘‘(B) that the accesser lacks authorization 
to obtain; and 
‘‘(C) by knowingly circumventing one or 
more technological or physical measures that 
are designed to exclude or prevent unauthorized 
individuals from obtaining that information;’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 1030 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)(10) by striking ‘‘unauthor-
ized access, or exceeding authorized access, to a’’ 
and inserting ‘‘access without authorization of a pro-
tected’’; and 
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(2) by striking ‘‘exceeds authorized access’’ 
each place it appears. 
SEC. 3. ELIMINATING REDUNDANCY. 
Section 1030(a)(4) of title 18, United States Code, 
is repealed. 
SEC. 4. MAKING PENALTIES PROPORTIONAL TO CRIMES. 
Section 1030(c)(2) of title 18, United States Code is 
amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘conviction for another’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subsequent’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘such’’ after ‘‘attempt to 
commit’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (B)(i), by inserting after 
‘‘financial gain’’ the following: ‘‘and the fair market 
value of the information obtained exceeds $5,000’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ‘‘the of-
fense was committed’’ and all that follows through 
the semicolon, and inserting the following: ‘‘the of-
fense was committed in furtherance of any criminal 
act in violation of the Constitution or laws of the 
United States or of any State punishable by a term 
of imprisonment greater than one year, unless such 
criminal acts are prohibited by this section or such 
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State violation would be based solely on accessing in-
formation without authorization;’’; 
(4) in subparagraph (B)(iii), by inserting ‘‘fair 
market’’ before ‘‘value’’; and 
(5) in subparagraph (C)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘conviction for another’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subsequent’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘such’’ after ‘‘attempt to 
commit’’. 
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