I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3881 
To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to provide for 
more transparency of the programs carried out under that Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 15, 2014 
Mr. CARNEY (for himself, Ms. HANABUSA, and Mr. CONNOLLY) 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 amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 
to provide for more transparency of the programs carried 
out under that Act. 
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 ‘‘Expansion of National 
Security Agency Oversight Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF ADDITIONAL COMMITTEES IN CER-
TAIN REPORTS UNDER THE FOREIGN INTEL-
LIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978. 
(a) PHYSICAL SEARCHES.— 
(1) DEFINITIONS.—Section 301 of the Foreign 
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 
1821) is amended— 
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), 
and (4) as paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respec-
tively; and 
(B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(2) ‘Appropriate congressional committees’ 
means— 
‘‘(A) the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, the Committee on the Judiciary, 
the Committee on Armed Services, and the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives; and 
‘‘(B) the Select Committee on Intelligence, 
the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee 
on Armed Services, and the Committee on For-
eign Relations of the Senate.’’. 
(2) REPORTS.—Section 306 of the Foreign In-
telligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1826) 
is amended by striking ‘‘the Permanent Select Com-
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mittee on Intelligence of the House of Representa-
tives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
Senate, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
Senate,’’ and inserting ‘‘the appropriate congres-
sional committees’’. 
(b) PEN REGISTER
AND TRAP
AND TRACE DE-
VICES.— 
(1) DEFINITIONS.—Section 401 of the Foreign 
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 
1841) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) The term ‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’ has the meaning given the term in section 
301.’’. 
(2) REPORTS.—Section 406 of the Foreign In-
telligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1846) 
is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘the Per-
manent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
House of Representatives and the Select Com-
mittee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on the Ju-
diciary of the Senate,’’ and inserting ‘‘the ap-
propriate congressional committees’’; and 
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(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘the 
committees referred to in subsection (a) and to 
the Committees on the Judiciary of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘the appropriate congressional committees’’. 
(c) ACCESS TO CERTAIN BUSINESS RECORDS.—Sec-
tion 502 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 
1978 (50 U.S.C. 1862) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘the Perma-
nent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House 
of Representatives and the Select Committee on In-
telligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
Senate’’ and inserting ‘‘the appropriate congres-
sional committees’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘the House 
and Senate Committees on the Judiciary and the 
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’’ 
and inserting ‘‘the appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(d) In this section, the term ‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’ has the meaning given the term in sec-
tion 301.’’. 
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