Title: POISE Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Prevention and Oversight of Intelligence Sharing with Enemies Act or the POISE Act
This bill amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require the President to provide the congressional intelligence committees with information about any disclosure of top secret information to a foreign country's government official, agent, or representative if the foreign country is a state sponsor of terrorism or is subject to economic sanctions by the United States.
"Top secret" applies to information that when subject to unauthorized disclosure could be reasonably expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2645 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2645

To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to provide for congressional 
   notification of disclosures of top secret information to certain 
               foreign countries, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 2017

   Mrs. Murphy of Florida (for herself, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Gallego, Mr. 
    Hastings, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Mr. Johnson of 
   Georgia, Mr. Soto, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Schneider, Mr. 
  Schrader, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Crist, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. David 
 Scott of Georgia, Mr. Costa, and Ms. Blunt Rochester) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on 
                              Intelligence

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to provide for congressional 
   notification of disclosures of top secret information to certain 
               foreign countries, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Prevention and Oversight of 
Intelligence Sharing with Enemies Act'' or the ``POISE Act''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF DISCLOSURE OF TOP SECRET 
              INFORMATION TO CERTAIN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 501 of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091(a)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
        paragraph (2):
            ``(2)(A) The President shall furnish to the congressional 
        intelligence committees any information or material concerning 
        any disclosure of top secret information, including such 
        information relating to sensitive intelligence sources and 
        methods, to any government official, agent, or representative 
        of a foreign country, which at the time of such disclosure--
                    ``(i) is a state sponsor of terrorism; or
                    ``(ii) is subject to economic sanctions.
            ``(B) Such information or material shall be furnished as 
        soon as possible but in no event more than 48 hours after the 
        disclosure is made.''.
    (b) Definitions.--Subsection (f) of such section is amended to read 
as follows:
    ``(f) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) The term `intelligence activities' includes covert 
        actions as defined in section 503(e) of this title, and 
        includes financial intelligence activities.
            ``(2) The term `top secret information' has the meaning 
        given such term in section 1.2(a)(1) of Executive Order No. 
        13526, as in effect on the date of the enactment of the POISE 
        Act.
            ``(3) The term `economic sanctions' means any sanctions 
        program administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of 
        the Department of the Treasury relating to sanctions imposed--
                    ``(A) pursuant to the International Emergency 
                Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) or any 
                other provision of law; and
                    ``(B) by reason of state-sponsored conduct or 
                conduct by government officials.
            ``(4) The term `state sponsor of terrorism' means a country 
        the government of which the Secretary of State has determined, 
        for purposes of section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act 
        of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 4605(j)) (as continued in effect pursuant to 
        the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 
        et seq.)), section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
        (22 U.S.C. 2371), section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 
        U.S.C. 2780), or any other provision of law, is a government 
        that has repeatedly provided support for acts of international 
        terrorism.''.
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