I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2454 
To provide for the public disclosure of information regarding surveillance 
activities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 19, 2015 
Mr. PERRY 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 provide for the public disclosure of information regarding 
surveillance activities under the Foreign Intelligence Sur-
veillance Act of 1978. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION RE-
GARDING SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES UNDER 
THE 
FOREIGN 
INTELLIGENCE 
SURVEIL-
LANCE ACT OF 1978. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) FISA COURT.—The term ‘‘FISA Court’’ 
means a court established under section 103 of the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 
U.S.C. 1803). 
(2) INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.—The term 
‘‘intelligence community’’ has the meaning given 
that term in section 3(4) of the National Security 
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)). 
(b) REQUIREMENT TO DISCLOSE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—If a FISA Court issues a de-
cision that determines that surveillance activities 
conducted by the Government of the United States 
have violated the laws or Constitution of the United 
States, the Attorney General shall publicly disclose 
the decision in a manner consistent with the protec-
tion of the national security of the United States. 
(2) DISCLOSURE DESCRIBED.—For each disclo-
sure required by paragraph (1), the Attorney Gen-
eral shall make available to the public documents 
sufficient to identify with particularity the statutory 
or constitutional provision that was determined to 
have been violated. 
(3) DOCUMENTS
DESCRIBED.—The Attorney 
General shall satisfy the disclosure requirements in 
paragraph (2) by— 
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(A) releasing a FISA Court decision in its 
entirety or as redacted; or 
(B) releasing a summary of a FISA Court 
decision. 
(4) EXTENSIVE
DISCLOSURE.—The Attorney 
General shall release as much information regarding 
the facts and analysis contained in a decision de-
scribed in paragraph (1) or documents described in 
paragraph (3) as is consistent with legitimate na-
tional security concerns. 
(5) TIMING OF DISCLOSURE.—A decision that 
is required to be disclosed under paragraph (1) shall 
be disclosed not later than 60 days after the decision 
is issued. 
(c) DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DISCLO-
SURES TO CONGRESS AND THE PUBLIC.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT FOR DISCLOSURES TO CON-
GRESS.—Not later than 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
Intelligence shall provide to Congress, in writing, the 
following information: 
(A) Whether the National Security Agency 
or any other element of the intelligence commu-
nity has ever collected the cell-site location in-
formation of a large number of United States 
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persons with no known connection to suspicious 
activity, or made plans to collect such informa-
tion. 
(B) A description of the type and amount 
of evidence the Director of National Intelligence 
believes is required to permit the collection of 
cell-site location information of United States 
persons for intelligence purposes. 
(C) Whether the National Security Agency 
or any other element of the intelligence commu-
nity has ever conducted a warrantless search of 
a collection of communications collected under 
section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveil-
lance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1881a) in an ef-
fort to find the communications of a particular 
United States person (other than a corpora-
tion). 
(D) If the National Security Agency or any 
other element of the intelligence community has 
conducted a search described in subparagraph 
(C), the number of such searches that have 
been conducted or an estimate of such number 
if it is not possible to provide a precise count. 
(E) A specific description of when the 
United States Government first began relying 
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on authorities under the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et 
seq.) to justify the collection of records per-
taining to large numbers of United States per-
sons with no known connection to suspicious ac-
tivity. 
(F) Whether representations made to the 
Supreme Court of the United States by the De-
partment of Justice in the case of Clapper v. 
Amnesty International USA accurately de-
scribed the use of authorities under the Foreign 
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 by the 
United States Government, and if any represen-
tations were inaccurate, which representations 
were inaccurate and how such representations 
have been corrected. 
(G) A listing of FISA Court opinions that 
identified violations of the law, the Constitution, 
or FISA Court orders with regard to collection 
carried out pursuant to section 402, 501, or 
702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 
of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1842, 1861, and 1881a) 
and a description of the violations identified by 
a FISA Court. 
(2) FORM OF DISCLOSURES.— 
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(A) DISCLOSURES TO THE PUBLIC.—The 
written submission required by paragraph (1) 
shall be made available to the public not later 
than 15 days after the date it is submitted to 
Congress. 
(B) REDACTIONS.—If the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence believes that public disclosure 
of information in the written submission re-
quired by paragraph (1) could cause significant 
harm to national security, the Director may re-
dact such information from the version made 
available to the public. 
(C) SUBMISSION
TO
CONGRESS.—If the 
Director redacts information under subpara-
graph (B), not later than 30 days after the date 
the written submission required by paragraph 
(1) is made available to the public under sub-
paragraph (A), the Director shall submit to the 
Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate 
and the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence of the House of Representatives a state-
ment explaining the specific harm to national 
security that the disclosure of such information 
could cause. 
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(d) ASSESSMENT OF ECONOMIC IMPACT OF SURVEIL-
LANCE ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT
FOR
ASSESSMENT.—The 
Comptroller General of the United States, in con-
sultation with the United States International Trade 
Commission, shall conduct an assessment of the eco-
nomic impact of bulk collection programs conducted 
under title IV and title V of the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.), 
as modified by the USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law 
107–56; 115 Stat. 272), and of surveillance pro-
grams conducted under section 702 of the Foreign 
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 
1881a), in light of the fact that such programs are 
now public. 
(2) EVALUATION.—The assessment required by 
paragraph (1) shall include an evaluation of the im-
pact of these disclosures on United States commu-
nication service providers’ ability to compete in for-
eign markets. 
(3) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 
270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Comptroller General shall submit to Congress 
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the findings of the assessment required by para-
graph (1). 
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