H. R. 2048 
One Hundred Fourteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the sixth day of January, two thousand and fifteen 
An Act 
To reform the authorities of the Federal Government to require the production 
of certain business records, conduct 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 pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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.
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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 Intelligence Surveil-
lance 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 outside 
the United States as agents of foreign powers. 
Sec. 703. Improvement to investigations of international proliferation of weapons of 
mass destruction. 
Sec. 704. Increase in penalties for material support of foreign terrorist organiza-
tions. 
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 SURVEIL-
LANCE 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 application for the production of call detail 
records other than in the manner described in subpara-
graph (C)), a statement’’; and 
(B) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting 
a semicolon; 
(2) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as subpara-
graphs (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,