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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 117 
To repeal the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 3, 2025 
Mr. BIGGS of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To repeal the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 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 ‘‘Fourth Amendment 
Restoration Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF FOREIGN SURVEILLANCE AUTHORI-
TIES. 
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 
(50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is repealed. 
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SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
For the purposes of this Act— 
(a) PEN REGISTER
AND TRAP
AND TRACE DE-
VICE.—The terms ‘‘pen register’’ and ‘‘trap and trace de-
vice’’ have the meanings given such terms in section 3127 
of title 18, United States Code. 
(b) UNITED STATES CITIZEN.—The term ‘‘United 
States citizen’’ means an individual who is a citizen of the 
United States. 
(c) FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION.—The 
term ‘‘foreign intelligence information’’ means— 
(1) information that relates to, and if con-
cerning a United States citizen is necessary to, the 
ability of the United States to protect against— 
(A) actual or potential attack or other 
grave hostile acts of a foreign power or an 
agent of a foreign power; 
(B) sabotage, international terrorism, or 
the intentional proliferation of weapons of mass 
destruction by a foreign power or an agent of 
a foreign power; or 
(C) clandestine intelligence activities by an 
intelligence service or network of a foreign 
power or by an agent of a foreign power; or 
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(2) information with respect to a foreign power 
or foreign territory that relates to, and if concerning 
a United States citizen, is necessary to— 
(A) the national defense or the security of 
the United States; or 
(B) the conduct of the foreign affairs of 
the United States. 
(d) ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE.—The term ‘‘elec-
tronic surveillance’’ means— 
(1) the acquisition by an electronic, mechanical, 
or other surveillance device of the contents of any 
wire or radio communication sent by or intended to 
be received by a particular, known United States cit-
izen who is in the United States, if the contents are 
acquired by intentionally targeting that United 
States citizen, under circumstances in which a cit-
izen has a reasonable expectation of privacy and a 
warrant would be required for law enforcement pur-
poses; or 
(2) the installation or use of an electronic, me-
chanical, or other surveillance device in the United 
States for monitoring to acquire information, other 
than from a wire or radio communication, under cir-
cumstances in which a citizen has a reasonable ex-
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pectation of privacy and a warrant would be re-
quired for law enforcement purposes. 
(e) WIRE COMMUNICATION.—The term ‘‘wire com-
munication’’ means any communication while it is being 
carried by a wire, cable, or other like connection furnished 
or operated by any person engaged as a common carrier 
in providing or operating such facilities for the trans-
mission of interstate or foreign communications. 
SEC. 4. PROHIBITIONS ON SURVEILLING UNITED STATES 
CITIZENS. 
(a) An officer of the United States must obtain a 
warrant issued using the procedures described in the Fed-
eral Rules of Criminal Procedure by a Federal court in 
order to conduct or request— 
(1) electronic surveillance of a United States 
citizen; 
(2) a physical search of a premises, informa-
tion, material, or property used exclusively by, or 
under the open and exclusive control of, a United 
States citizen; 
(3) approval of the installation and use of a pen 
register or trap and trace device, a sole or signifi-
cant purpose of which is to obtain foreign intel-
ligence information concerning a United States cit-
izen; 
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