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[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2684 Introduced in House (IH)]

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.

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                    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

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                                 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.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Telephone Surveillance 
Accountability Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. LIMITS ON SEARCHING TELEPHONY METADATA IN THE FOREIGN 
              INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978.

    Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 
(50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection:
    ``(i) Limits on Searching Telephony Metadata.--
            ``(1) Court approval for searching telephony metadata.--No 
        person may search telephony metadata acquired pursuant to a 
        production order under subsection (a)(1) unless--
                    ``(A) the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
                Investigation makes an application to a judge of the 
                court established by section 103(a) that includes a 
                statement of facts showing that there is a reasonable, 
                articulable suspicion that the basis of the search is 
                material and specifically relevant to an authorized 
                investigation; and
                    ``(B) the judge finds that there is a reasonable, 
                articulable suspicion that the basis of the search is 
                material and specifically relevant to an authorized 
                investigation and enters an order authorizing such 
                search.
            ``(2) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) The term `production order' means an order to 
                produce any tangible thing under this section.
                    ``(B) The term `telephony metadata' means 
                communications routing information, including session 
                identifying information, an original or terminating 
                telephone number, an International Mobile Subscriber 
                Identity, an International Mobile Station Equipment 
                Identity, a trunk identifier, a telephone calling card 
                number, and the time or duration of a call.''.

SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT FOR PRODUCTION ORDERS OF TELEPHONY 
              METADATA IN THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 
              1978.

    Section 502 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 
(50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection:
    ``(d) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall 
monthly submit to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of 
the Senate a report describing each search made during the preceding 
month of telephony metadata pursuant to an order under section 
501(i)(1)(B).''.
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