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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2684 

To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report 

and obtain court approval for broad telephony metadata collection 

searches, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 11, 2013 

Mr. LYNCH (for himself, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, and Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

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

(Permanent Select), 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 require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report and obtain court approval for broad telephony metadata collection searches, and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Telephone Surveillance 

5 Accountability Act of 2013’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. LIMITS ON SEARCHING TELEPHONY METADATA IN 

2 THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEIL3 LANCE ACT OF 1978. 

4 Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 

5 Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is amended by add6 ing at the end the following new subsection: 

7 ‘‘(i) LIMITS ON SEARCHING TELEPHONY

8 METADATA.— 

9 ‘‘(1) COURT APPROVAL FOR SEARCHING TE10 LEPHONY METADATA.—No person may search te11 lephony metadata acquired pursuant to a production 

12 order under subsection (a)(1) unless— 

13 ‘‘(A) the Director of the Federal Bureau of 

14 Investigation makes an application to a judge of 

15 the court established by section 103(a) that in16 cludes a statement of facts showing that there 

17 is a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the 

18 basis of the search is material and specifically 

19 relevant to an authorized investigation; and 

20 ‘‘(B) the judge finds that there is a rea21 sonable, articulable suspicion that the basis of 

22 the search is material and specifically relevant 

23 to an authorized investigation and enters an 

24 order authorizing such search. 

25 ‘‘(2) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 


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1 ‘‘(A) The term ‘production order’ means 

2 an order to produce any tangible thing under 

3 this section. 

4 ‘‘(B) The term ‘telephony metadata’ means 

5 communications routing information, including 

6 session identifying information, an original or 

7 terminating telephone number, an International 

8 Mobile Subscriber Identity, an International 

9 Mobile Station Equipment Identity, a trunk 

10 identifier, a telephone calling card number, and 

11 the time or duration of a call.’’. 

12 SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT FOR PRODUCTION 

13 ORDERS OF TELEPHONY METADATA IN THE 

14 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT 

15 OF 1978. 

16 Section 502 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 

17 Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is amended by add18 ing at the end the following new subsection: 

19 ‘‘(d) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Inves20 tigation shall monthly submit to the Permanent Select 

21 Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives 

22 and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate 

23 a report describing each search made during the preceding 


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1 month of telephony metadata pursuant to an order under 

2 section 501(i)(1)(B).’’. 

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