I 
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 Illi-
nois) 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 Investiga-
tion to report and obtain court approval for broad teleph-
ony metadata collection searches, 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Telephone Surveillance 
Accountability Act of 2013’’. 
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SEC. 2. LIMITS ON SEARCHING TELEPHONY METADATA IN 
THE 
FOREIGN 
INTELLIGENCE 
SURVEIL-
LANCE ACT OF 1978. 
Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 
Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(i) 
LIMITS
ON
SEARCHING
TELEPHONY 
METADATA.— 
‘‘(1) COURT
APPROVAL
FOR
SEARCHING
TE-
LEPHONY METADATA.—No person may search te-
lephony 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 in-
cludes 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 rea-
sonable, 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: 
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‘‘(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 add-
ing at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(d) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation 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 
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