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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7331 

To establish a FISA Oversight Office for applications under the Foreign 

Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 13, 2024 

Mr. LIEU introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Permanent Select Committee on 

Intelligence, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 

in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To establish a FISA Oversight Office for applications under 

the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Americans 

5 from Undue Surveillance Act of 2024’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FISA OVERSIGHT OFFICE. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title I of the Foreign Intelligence 

8 Surveillance Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end 

9 the following: 


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1 ‘‘SEC. 113. FISA OVERSIGHT OFFICE. 

2 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is established an office, to 

3 be known as the ‘FISA Oversight Office’, within the De4 partment of Justice (hereinafter in this section referred 

5 to as the ‘Office’). The Office— 

6 ‘‘(1) shall evaluate each application under this 

7 title; 

8 ‘‘(2) excepted as provided in paragraph (3), if 

9 the Office determines based on the evaluation under 

10 paragraph (1) that the probable cause standard 

11 under section 105(a)(2) may not be met, may— 

12 ‘‘(A) petition to be joined as a party; and 

13 ‘‘(B) file a motion with the court alleging 

14 that such standard has not been met; and 

15 ‘‘(3) if the application is for the surveillance of 

16 a United States person and if the Office determines 

17 based on the evaluation under paragraph (1) that 

18 the probable cause standard under section 105(a)(2) 

19 has not been clearly met, shall— 

20 ‘‘(A) petition to be joined as a party; and 

21 ‘‘(B) file a motion with the court alleging 

22 that such standard has not been met. 

23 ‘‘(b) ACCESS TO INFORMATION.—The Federal office 

24 filing the application shall provide the Office all available 

25 evidence that pertains to an investigation into a United 

26 States person. That officer is required to notify the Office 


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1 each time an application is filed with the court established 

2 under section 103(a). 

3 ‘‘(c) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 365 days 

4 after the effective date of this section, the Attorney Gen5 eral and the Director shall submit to the appropriate com6 mittees of Congress a report detailing— 

7 ‘‘(1) the number of applications for which the 

8 FISA Oversight Office has filed a motion under sub9 section (a)(2)(B) or (a)(3)(B) and information re10 garding the subject of such applications and the in11 formation sought to be collected; 

12 ‘‘(2) the number of such applications that the 

13 FISA Oversight Office has declined to challenge, 

14 and information regarding the subject of such appli15 cations and the information sought to be collected, 

16 as well as information regarding the Office’s decision 

17 not to challenge.’’. 

18 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

19 for such Act is amended by inserting after the item per20 taining to section 112 the following: 

‘‘Sec. 113. FISA Oversight Office.’’. 

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