Title: Preventing Unconstitutional Collection Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Preventing Unconstitutional Collection Act
This bill amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to require the Department of Justice's and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's procedures for targeting communications of non-U.S. persons located outside the United States to ensure that: (1) only communications sent or received by a targeted person are acquired, and (2) any selection terms used to conduct such acquisition apply to information concerning the sender or recipient and not to the contents of such communications.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2588 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2588

 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to codify 
 the prohibition on the acquisition of ``about'' communications under 
                        section 702 of such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2017

  Ms. Gabbard (for herself, Mr. Perry, and Mr. Polis) 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 within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to codify 
 the prohibition on the acquisition of ``about'' communications under 
                        section 702 of such Act.

    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 ``Preventing Unconstitutional 
Collection Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON ACQUISITION OF ``ABOUT'' COMMUNICATIONS.

    Section 702(d) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 
(50 U.S.C. 1881a(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(3) Prohibition on acquisition of `about' 
        communications.--The procedures adopted in accordance with 
        paragraph (1) shall ensure that--
                    ``(A) the only communications acquired, 
                intentionally or otherwise, under subsection (a) are 
                communications sent or received by a targeted person;
                    ``(B) any selection term used to conduct such 
                acquisition shall apply to information concerning the 
                sender or recipient of communications, and may not 
                apply to the contents of such communications; and
                    ``(C) there are methods in place that are 
                reasonably designed to carry out subparagraphs (A) and 
                (B).''.
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