I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3476 
To express the sense of Congress that section 502 of the National Security 
Act of 1947, together with other intelligence community authorities, 
obligate an element of the intelligence community to submit to the 
congressional intelligence committees written notification, by not later 
than 7 days after becoming aware, that an individual in the executive 
branch has disclosed covered classified information to an official of an 
adversary foreign government using methods other than established intel-
ligence channels, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 25, 2019 
Mrs. MURPHY (for herself and Mr. HIMES) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
A BILL 
To express the sense of Congress that section 502 of the 
National Security Act of 1947, together with other intel-
ligence community authorities, obligate an element of 
the intelligence community to submit to the congressional 
intelligence committees written notification, by not later 
than 7 days after becoming aware, that an individual 
in the executive branch has disclosed covered classified 
information to an official of an adversary foreign govern-
ment using methods other than established intelligence 
channels, and for other purposes. 
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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 ‘‘Prevention and Over-
sight of Intelligence Sharing with Enemies Act’’ or the 
‘‘POISE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NOTIFICATIONS OF CER-
TAIN DISCLOSURES OF CLASSIFIED INFOR-
MATION. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that section 502 of 
the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3092) re-
quires elements of the intelligence community to keep the 
congressional intelligence committees ‘‘fully and currently 
informed’’ about all ‘‘intelligence activities’’ of the United 
States, and to ‘‘furnish to the congressional intelligence 
committees any information or material concerning intel-
ligence activities which is requested by either of the con-
gressional intelligence committees in order to carry out its 
authorized responsibilities.’’. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) section 502 of the National Security Act of 
1947 (50 U.S.C. 3092), together with other intel-
ligence community authorities, obligate an element 
of the intelligence community to submit to the con-
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gressional intelligence committees written notifica-
tion, by not later than 7 days after becoming aware, 
that an individual in the executive branch has dis-
closed covered classified information to an official of 
an adversary foreign government using methods 
other than established intelligence channels; and 
(2) each such notification should include— 
(A) the date and place of the disclosure of 
classified information covered by the notifica-
tion; 
(B) a description of such classified infor-
mation; 
(C) identification of the individual who 
made such disclosure and the individual to 
whom such disclosure was made; and 
(D) a summary of the circumstances of 
such disclosure. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ADVERSARY FOREIGN GOVERNMENT.—The 
term ‘‘adversary foreign government’’ means the 
government of any of the following foreign countries: 
(A) North Korea. 
(B) Iran. 
(C) China. 
(D) Russia. 
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(E) Cuba. 
(2) COVERED CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.—The 
term ‘‘covered classified information’’ means classi-
fied information that was— 
(A) collected by an element of the intel-
ligence community; or 
(B) provided by the intelligence service or 
military of a foreign country to an element of 
the intelligence community. 
(3) ESTABLISHED INTELLIGENCE CHANNELS.— 
The term ‘‘established intelligence channels’’ means 
methods to exchange intelligence to coordinate for-
eign intelligence relationships, as established pursu-
ant to law by the Director of National Intelligence, 
the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the 
Director of the National Security Agency, or other 
head of an element of the intelligence community. 
(4) INDIVIDUAL IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.— 
The term ‘‘individual in the executive branch’’ 
means any officer or employee of the executive 
branch, including individuals— 
(A) occupying a position specified in article 
II of the Constitution; 
(B) appointed to a position by an indi-
vidual described in subparagraph (A); or 
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(C) serving in the civil service or the senior 
executive service (or similar service for senior 
executives of particular departments or agen-
cies). 
Æ 
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