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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3476 

To express the sense of Congress that section 502 of the National Security 

Act of 1947, together with other intelligence community authorities, 

obligate an element of the intelligence community to submit to the 

congressional intelligence committees written notification, by not later 

than 7 days after becoming aware, that an individual in the executive 

branch has disclosed covered classified information to an official of an 

adversary foreign government using methods other than established intelligence channels, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 25, 2019 

Mrs. MURPHY (for herself and Mr. HIMES) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 

A BILL 

To express the sense of Congress that section 502 of the 

National Security Act of 1947, together with other intelligence community authorities, obligate an element of 

the intelligence community to submit to the congressional 

intelligence committees written notification, by not later 

than 7 days after becoming aware, that an individual 

in the executive branch has disclosed covered classified 

information to an official of an adversary foreign government using methods other than established intelligence 

channels, and for other purposes. 


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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 ‘‘Prevention and Over5 sight of Intelligence Sharing with Enemies Act’’ or the 

6 ‘‘POISE Act’’. 

7 SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NOTIFICATIONS OF CER8 TAIN DISCLOSURES OF CLASSIFIED INFOR9 MATION. 

10 (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that section 502 of 

11 the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3092) re12 quires elements of the intelligence community to keep the 

13 congressional intelligence committees ‘‘fully and currently 

14 informed’’ about all ‘‘intelligence activities’’ of the United 

15 States, and to ‘‘furnish to the congressional intelligence 

16 committees any information or material concerning intel17 ligence activities which is requested by either of the con18 gressional intelligence committees in order to carry out its 

19 authorized responsibilities.’’. 

20 (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con21 gress that— 

22 (1) section 502 of the National Security Act of 

23 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3092), together with other intel24 ligence community authorities, obligate an element 

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1 gressional intelligence committees written notifica2 tion, by not later than 7 days after becoming aware, 

3 that an individual in the executive branch has dis4 closed covered classified information to an official of 

5 an adversary foreign government using methods 

6 other than established intelligence channels; and 

7 (2) each such notification should include— 

8 (A) the date and place of the disclosure of 

9 classified information covered by the notifica10 tion; 

11 (B) a description of such classified infor12 mation; 

13 (C) identification of the individual who 

14 made such disclosure and the individual to 

15 whom such disclosure was made; and 

16 (D) a summary of the circumstances of 

17 such disclosure. 

18 (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

19 (1) ADVERSARY FOREIGN GOVERNMENT.—The 

20 term ‘‘adversary foreign government’’ means the 

21 government of any of the following foreign countries: 

22 (A) North Korea. 

23 (B) Iran. 

24 (C) China. 

25 (D) Russia. 


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1 (E) Cuba. 

2 (2) COVERED CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.—The 

3 term ‘‘covered classified information’’ means classi4 fied information that was— 

5 (A) collected by an element of the intel6 ligence community; or 

7 (B) provided by the intelligence service or 

8 military of a foreign country to an element of 

9 the intelligence community. 

10 (3) ESTABLISHED INTELLIGENCE CHANNELS.— 

11 The term ‘‘established intelligence channels’’ means 

12 methods to exchange intelligence to coordinate for13 eign intelligence relationships, as established pursu14 ant to law by the Director of National Intelligence, 

15 the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the 

16 Director of the National Security Agency, or other 

17 head of an element of the intelligence community. 

18 (4) INDIVIDUAL IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.— 

19 The term ‘‘individual in the executive branch’’ 

20 means any officer or employee of the executive 

21 branch, including individuals— 

22 (A) occupying a position specified in article 

23 II of the Constitution; 

24 (B) appointed to a position by an indi25 vidual described in subparagraph (A); or 


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1 (C) serving in the civil service or the senior 

2 executive service (or similar service for senior 

3 executives of particular departments or agen4 cies). 

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