Classified Information Procedures Act

Classified Information Procedures Act

Other short titles	Classified Information Procedures Act of 1980
Long title	An Act to provide certain pretrial, trial, and appellate procedures for criminal cases involving classified information.
Acronyms (colloquial)	CIPA, CICTPA
Nicknames	Classified Information Criminal Trial Procedures Act
Enacted by	the 96th United States Congress
Effective	October 15, 1980
Citations
Public law	96-456
Statutes at Large	94 Stat. 2025
Codification
Titles amended	18 U.S.C.: Crimes and Criminal Procedure
U.S.C. sections created	18 U.S.C. Appendix §§ 1-16
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 1482 by Joe Biden (D–DE) on July 11, 1979 Committee consideration by Senate Judiciary, House Intelligence (Permanent), House Judiciary Passed the Senate on June 25, 1980 (Passed) Passed the House on September 22, 1980 (Passed, in lieu of H.R. 4736) Reported by the joint conference committee on September 30, 1980; agreed to by the Senate on September 30, 1980 (Agreed) and by the House on October 2, 1980 (Agreed) Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 15, 1980

The Classified Information Procedures Act or CIPA (Pub. L. 96–456, 94 Stat. 2025, enacted October 15, 1980 through S. 1482) is codified as the third appendix to Title 18 of the U.S. Code, the title concerning crimes and criminal procedures. The U.S. Code citation is 18 U.S.C. App. III. Sections 1-16.