‘‘(C) identifying any concerns with any 
such application; and 
‘‘(D) proposing requirements or conditions 
for the approval of any such application. 
‘‘(2) DIRECTION.—The legal advisors employed 
under paragraph (1) shall be subject solely to the di-
rection of the presiding judges of the Foreign Intel-
ligence Surveillance Court and the Foreign Intel-
ligence Surveillance Court of Review.’’. 
SEC. 304. TRANSCRIPTS OF PROCEEDINGS AND COMMU-
NICATIONS REGARDING APPLICATIONS. 
(a) TRANSCRIPTS.—Subsection (c) of section 103 (50 
U.S.C. 1803) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Proceedings under this Act’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(1) Proceedings under this Act’’; 
(2) by inserting ‘‘, and shall be transcribed’’ be-
fore the first period; 
(3) by inserting ‘‘, transcriptions of pro-
ceedings,’’ after ‘‘applications made’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following new sen-
tence: ‘‘Transcriptions of proceedings shall be stored 
in a file associated with the relevant application or 
order.’’. 
(b) REQUIREMENT
FOR
WRITTEN
RECORDS
OF 
INTERACTIONS
WITH
COURT.—Such subsection, as
amended by paragraph (1) of this section, is further 
amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph: 
‘‘(2) The Attorney General and the Foreign Intel-
ligence Surveillance Court shall maintain all written sub-
stantive communications between the Department of Jus-
tice and the court, including the identity of the employees 
of the court to or from whom the communications were 
made, regarding an application or order made under this 
title in a file associated with the application or order.’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subsection (i)(2) of 
section 103 (50 U.S.C. 1803) is amended by striking 
‘‘subsection (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (c)(1)’’. 
SEC. 305. INFORMATION PROVIDED IN ANNUAL REPORTS. 
(a) REPORTS BY DIRECTOR OF THE ADMINISTRA-
TIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS.—Sub-
section (a)(1) of section 603 (50 U.S.C. 1873) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subparagraph (E), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(2) in subparagraph (F), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraphs:
‘‘(G) the number of times the Attorney 
General required the emergency production of 
tangible things pursuant to section 501(i)(1) 
and the application under subparagraph (D) of 
such section was denied; 
‘‘(H) the number of certifications by the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Re-
view pursuant to section 103(j); and 
‘‘(I) the number of requests to certify a 
question made by an amicus curiae to the For-
eign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the For-
eign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review 
pursuant to section 103(i)(7).’’. 
(b) REPORTS BY DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTEL-
LIGENCE.—Subsection (b)(5)(B) of such section, as 
amended by section 101, is amended by inserting before 
the semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘, including infor-
mation received electronically and through hardcopy and 
portable media’’. 
TITLE IV—TRANSPARENCY, 
SUNSETS, AND OTHER MATTERS 
SEC. 401. CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 601 (50 U.S.C. 1871) is 
amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (f); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing new subsection (e): 
‘‘(e) CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT.—In a manner 
consistent with the protection of the national security, 
nothing in this Act or any other provision of law may be 
construed to preclude the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence of the Senate from receiv-
ing in a timely manner, upon request, applications sub-
mitted under this Act to the Foreign Intelligence Surveil-
lance Court, orders of the court, and relevant materials 
relating to such applications and orders.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 602(a) (50 
U.S.C. 1872(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘in section 
601(e)’’ and inserting ‘‘in section 601(f)’’. 
SEC. 402. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPLIANCE OFFICERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title VI (50 U.S.C. 1871 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 605. COMPLIANCE OFFICERS. 
‘‘(a) APPOINTMENT.—The head of each covered 
agency shall appoint a single Federal officer to serve as 
the Compliance Officer for that agency.
‘‘(b) COMPLIANCE.—Each Compliance Officer ap-
pointed under subsection (a) shall be responsible for over-
seeing the compliance of the relevant covered agency with 
the requirements of this Act. 
‘‘(c) AUDITS.—Each Compliance Officer shall con-
duct routine audits of the compliance by the relevant cov-
ered agency with— 
‘‘(1) the requirements of this Act regarding 
submitting applications to the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Court, including with respect to the ac-
curacy of such applications; and 
‘‘(2) the minimization, targeting, querying, and 
accuracy procedures required by this Act. 
‘‘(d) 
ASSESSMENTS.—Each 
Compliance 
Officer 
shall— 
‘‘(1) conduct on a routine basis assessments of 
the efficacy of the minimization, targeting, querying, 
and accuracy procedures adopted by the Attorney 
General pursuant to this Act; and 
‘‘(2) annually submit to the Assistant Attorney 
General designated as the Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral for National Security under section 507A of 
title 28, United States Code, and the head of the 
relevant covered agency the findings of such assess-
ments, including any recommendations of the Com-
pliance Officer with respect to improving such proce-
dures. 
‘‘(e) REMEDIATION.—Each Compliance Officer shall 
ensure the remediation of any compliance issues of the rel-
evant covered agency identified pursuant to this section 
or the rules of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. 
‘‘(f) INSPECTOR GENERALS ASSESSMENT.—On an 
annual basis, and consistent with the protection of sources 
and methods, each Inspector General of a covered agency 
shall submit to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court 
and the appropriate congressional committees an assess-
ment of the implementation of this section by the covered 
agency. 
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’ means— 
‘‘(A) the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence and the Committee on the Judici-
ary of the House of Representatives; and 
‘‘(B) the Select Committee on Intelligence 
and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Sen-
ate. 
‘‘(2) COVERED
AGENCY.—The term ‘covered 
agency’ means a department or agency of the United