114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2048 
AN ACT 
To reform the authorities of the Federal Government to 
require the production of certain business records, con-
duct electronic surveillance, use pen registers and trap 
and trace devices, and use other forms of information 
gathering for foreign intelligence, counterterrorism, and 
criminal purposes, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights 
and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 
2015’’ or the ‘‘USA FREEDOM Act of 2015’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. 
TITLE I—FISA BUSINESS RECORDS REFORMS 
Sec. 101. Additional requirements for call detail records. 
Sec. 102. Emergency authority. 
Sec. 103. Prohibition on bulk collection of tangible things. 
Sec. 104. Judicial review. 
Sec. 105. Liability protection. 
Sec. 106. Compensation for assistance. 
Sec. 107. Definitions. 
Sec. 108. Inspector General reports on business records orders. 
Sec. 109. Effective date. 
Sec. 110. Rule of construction. 
TITLE II—FISA PEN REGISTER AND TRAP AND TRACE DEVICE 
REFORM 
Sec. 201. Prohibition on bulk collection. 
Sec. 202. Privacy procedures. 
TITLE III—FISA ACQUISITIONS TARGETING PERSONS OUTSIDE 
THE UNITED STATES REFORMS 
Sec. 301. Limits on use of unlawfully obtained information. 
TITLE IV—FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT 
REFORMS 
Sec. 401. Appointment of amicus curiae. 
Sec. 402. Declassification of decisions, orders, and opinions. 
TITLE V—NATIONAL SECURITY LETTER REFORM 
Sec. 501. Prohibition on bulk collection. 
Sec. 502. Limitations on disclosure of national security letters. 
Sec. 503. Judicial review.
TITLE VI—FISA TRANSPARENCY AND REPORTING 
REQUIREMENTS 
Sec. 601. Additional reporting on orders requiring production of business 
records; business records compliance reports to Congress. 
Sec. 602. Annual reports by the Government. 
Sec. 603. Public reporting by persons subject to FISA orders. 
Sec. 604. Reporting requirements for decisions, orders, and opinions of the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Foreign Intel-
ligence Surveillance Court of Review. 
Sec. 605. Submission of reports under FISA. 
TITLE VII—ENHANCED NATIONAL SECURITY PROVISIONS 
Sec. 701. Emergencies involving non-United States persons. 
Sec. 702. Preservation of treatment of non-United States persons traveling out-
side the United States as agents of foreign powers. 
Sec. 703. Improvement to investigations of international proliferation of weap-
ons of mass destruction. 
Sec. 704. Increase in penalties for material support of foreign terrorist organi-
zations. 
Sec. 705. Sunsets. 
TITLE VIII—SAFETY OF MARITIME NAVIGATION AND NUCLEAR 
TERRORISM CONVENTIONS IMPLEMENTATION 
Subtitle A—Safety of Maritime Navigation 
Sec. 801. Amendment to section 2280 of title 18, United States Code. 
Sec. 802. New section 2280a of title 18, United States Code. 
Sec. 803. Amendments to section 2281 of title 18, United States Code. 
Sec. 804. New section 2281a of title 18, United States Code. 
Sec. 805. Ancillary measure. 
Subtitle B—Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism 
Sec. 811. New section 2332i of title 18, United States Code. 
Sec. 812. Amendment to section 831 of title 18, United States Code. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE 
SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978. 
Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in 
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 
of an amendment to, or a repeal of, a section or other 
provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to 
a section or other provision of the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.).
TITLE I—FISA BUSINESS 
RECORDS REFORMS 
SEC. 101. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CALL DETAIL 
RECORDS. 
(a) APPLICATION.—Section 501(b)(2) (50 U.S.C. 
1861(b)(2)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A)— 
(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by 
striking ‘‘a statement’’ and inserting ‘‘in the 
case of an application other than an application 
described in subparagraph (C) (including an ap-
plication for the production of call detail 
records other than in the manner described in 
subparagraph (C)), a statement’’; and 
(B) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and 
inserting a semicolon; 
(2) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and 
(B) as subparagraphs (B) and (D), respectively; and 
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (B) (as so 
redesignated) the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) in the case of an application for the 
production on an ongoing basis of call detail 
records created before, on, or after the date of 
the application relating to an authorized inves-
tigation (other than a threat assessment) con-
tending to make a disclosure under clause (i) or 
(iii) of subparagraph (A) shall identify to the 
Director or such designee the person to whom 
such disclosure will be made or to whom such 
disclosure was made prior to the request.’’. 
(d) CONSUMER REPORTS.—Section 627 of the Fair 
Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681v) is amended by 
striking subsection (c) and inserting the following new 
subsection: 
‘‘(c) PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN DISCLOSURE.— 
‘‘(1) PROHIBITION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—If a certification is 
issued under subparagraph (B) and notice of 
the right to judicial review under subsection (d) 
is provided, no consumer reporting agency that 
receives a request under subsection (a), or offi-
cer, employee, or agent thereof, shall disclose or 
specify in any consumer report, that a govern-
ment agency described in subsection (a) has 
sought or obtained access to information or 
records under subsection (a). 
‘‘(B) CERTIFICATION.—The requirements 
of subparagraph (A) shall apply if the head of 
the government agency described in subsection 
(a), or a designee, certifies that the absence of