Title: To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to prohibit the United States Government from accessing and using information of United States persons collected under section 702 of such Act without a warrant.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
This bill amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to prohibit the U.S. government from accessing information concerning a U.S. person acquired under that Act unless pursuant to a warrant. This prohibition applies regardless of whether such information is incidentally collected.
The bill bars the use in evidence of any such information against a U.S. person in a criminal proceeding unless pursuant to such a warrant.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6353 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6353

To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to prohibit 
 the United States Government from accessing and using information of 
United States persons collected under section 702 of such Act without a 
                                warrant.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 12, 2018

Mr. Roe of Tennessee introduced the following bill; which was referred 
  to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Permanent 
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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to prohibit 
 the United States Government from accessing and using information of 
United States persons collected under section 702 of such Act without a 
                                warrant.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON ACCESSING AND USING INFORMATION OF UNITED 
              STATES PERSONS WITHOUT WARRANT.

    (a) Warrant Required.--Section 702(f) of the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1881a(f)) is amended by striking 
paragraphs (2) and (3) and inserting the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) Warrant required.--Information concerning a United 
        States person acquired under subsection (a), regardless of 
        whether such information is incidentally collected, may not be 
        accessed unless pursuant to a warrant of a district court of 
        the United States.''.
    (b) Limitation on Use.--Paragraph (2) of section 706(a) of such Act 
(50 U.S.C. 1881e(a)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(2) United states persons.--Any information concerning a 
        United States person acquired under section 702 shall not be 
        used in evidence against that United States person under 
        paragraph (1) in any criminal proceeding unless pursuant to a 
        warrant of a district court of the United States.''.
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