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

Summary:
Oppose Oversharing by Presidents Act or the OOPs Act
This bill amends the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 to require the National Security Council, in consultation with the Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to ensure a mitigation process and protocols are in place if the President publicly discloses classified intelligence without notifying the congressional intelligence committees.
If the President authorizes the public disclosure of classified information, the President is responsible for notifying the congressional intelligence committees of that disclosure.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2729 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2729

   To direct the National Security Council, in consultation with the 
 Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General, to ensure 
 that a mitigation process and protocols are in place in the case of a 
 disclosure of classified information by the President, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2017

Mr. Ruppersberger introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and in addition to the 
 Committees on Armed Services, and Foreign Affairs, 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 direct the National Security Council, in consultation with the 
 Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General, to ensure 
 that a mitigation process and protocols are in place in the case of a 
 disclosure of classified information by the President, 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 ``Oppose Oversharing by Presidents 
Act'' or the ``OOPs Act''.

SEC. 2. MITIGATION PROCESS FOR DISCLOSURE OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION BY 
              PRESIDENT.

    Section 504 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2013 (50 U.S.C. 3349) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsections:
    ``(e) Mitigation Procedures.--The National Security Council, in 
consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the 
Attorney General, shall ensure that a mitigation process and protocols 
are in place in the case of a disclosure of classified information by 
the President for which notification is not provided to the 
congressional intelligence committees in accordance with this section 
or another applicable provision of law. Such mitigation process shall 
include congressional notification of any such disclosure.
    ``(f) Government Official.--In this section, the term `government 
official' includes the President.''.
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