119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Feb 11, 2026
Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act
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Latest action (Feb 11, 2026): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
View on Congress.govPolicy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in Senate (Feb 11, 2026)
Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act
This bill requires the Department of Justice to issue a report regarding, establish guidelines for, and create or modify a program or system through which an incarcerated person may send or receive an electronic communication that excludes from monitoring the contents of any privileged electronic communication between the incarcerated person and his or her legal representative. Attorney-client privilege shall apply to electronic communications sent or received through this program or system.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
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AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION · lobbying firm or registrant: AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
$210,000
Spent on own lobbying
H.R. 7491, S. 3850, the Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act, which would ensure that attorney-client confidentiality extends to email for those in the federal…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION · lobbying firm or registrant: AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 20, 2026 · issue area: Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
$210,000
Spent on own lobbying
H.R. 7491, S. 3850 - the Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act, which would ensure that attorney-client confidentiality extends to email for those in the federal…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION · lobbying firm or registrant: AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
2026 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026) · posted Apr 20, 2026 · issue area: Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
$250,000
Spent on own lobbying
H.R. 7491, S. 3850 - the Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act, which would ensure that attorney-client confidentiality extends to email for those in the federal…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing