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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3849 
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require notice to Congress 
of certain declassifications of intelligence information, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 20, 2009 
Mr. CONYERS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Select 
Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select) 
A BILL 
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require 
notice to Congress of certain declassifications of intel-
ligence information, 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 ‘‘Disclosure of Presi-
dential Declassification of Intelligence Information Act of 
2009’’. 
SEC. 
2. 
NOTICE 
TO 
CONGRESS 
OF 
CERTAIN 
DECLASSIFICATIONS OF INTELLIGENCE IN-
FORMATION. 
(a) NOTICE REQUIRED.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Title V of the National Se-
curity Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 413 et seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sec-
tion: 
‘‘NOTICE TO CONGRESS OF CERTAIN DECLASSIFICATIONS 
OF INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION 
‘‘SEC. 508. (a) DECLASSIFICATION
OF
INTEL-
LIGENCE INFORMATION.— 
‘‘(1) NOTICE
REQUIRED.—Not later than 15 
days after the date of the declassification of intel-
ligence information by the President, or Vice Presi-
dent if authorized by a delegation of authority from 
the President, the President shall submit to the con-
gressional intelligence committees notice of the de-
classification of such intelligence information. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—Paragraph (1) shall not 
apply to the declassification of intelligence informa-
tion as part of a mandatory or systematic declas-
sification of information as described in section 3 of 
Executive Order 12958 or any successor Executive 
order. 
‘‘(b) OFFICIALS AUTHORIZED TO DECLASSIFY IN-
TELLIGENCE INFORMATION.— 
‘‘(1) INITIAL LIST.—The President shall submit to 
the congressional intelligence committees a list of the per-
sonnel of the Executive Office of the President who are 
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authorized to declassify information other than informa-
tion originally classified by such personnel. 
‘‘(2) UPDATES.—Not later than 15 days after a per-
son is granted authorization to declassify information 
other than information originally classified by such person, 
or the authority to declassify such information is revoked 
from such person, the President shall submit to the con-
gressional intelligence committees an update of the list re-
ferred to in paragraph (1) and notice of the addition or 
removal of a person from such list.’’. 
(2) INITIAL LIST SUBMISSION.—The President 
shall submit the list required to be submitted under 
section 508(b)(1) of the National Security Act of 
1947, as added by paragraph (1) of this subsection, 
not later than 15 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
(3) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents in the first section of such Act (50 U.S.C. 401 
note) is amended by inserting after the item relating 
to section 507 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 508. Notice to Congress of certain declassifications of intelligence infor-
mation.’’. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ADDITIONAL NOTICE.— 
It is the sense of Congress that, in furtherance of the pro-
tection of intelligence sources and methods and to ensure 
appropriate handling and dissemination of intelligence, 
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any notice submitted to the congressional intelligence com-
mittees under section 508(a) of the National Security Act 
of 1947, as added by subsection (a)(1) of this section, 
should also be submitted to— 
(1) the Director of National Intelligence; 
(2) the Archivist of the United States; and 
(3) the heads of the applicable elements of the 
intelligence community. 
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