Title: Strengthening Oversight of DHS Intelligence Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Strengthening Oversight of DHS Intelligence Act
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure that its handling of intelligence is consistent with privacy rights, civil rights, and civil liberties.
Specifically, the DHS senior official with primary responsibility for privacy policy shall ensure that intelligence information is shared, retained, and disseminated in a manner consistent with protecting privacy rights. The DHS Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties shall ensure that intelligence information is shared, retained, and disseminated in a manner consistent with protecting civil rights and civil liberties.
The Office of Intelligence and Analysis within DHS shall ensure that intelligence information is handled in a manner consistent with the guidance from the DHS privacy official and the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7984 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7984

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance the Department of 
Homeland Security's oversight of certain intelligence matters, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 7, 2020

  Mr. Rose of New York (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. 
  Langevin, Ms. Slotkin, and Mr. Vela) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance the Department of 
Homeland Security's oversight of certain intelligence matters, 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 ``Strengthening Oversight of DHS 
Intelligence Act''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCED DHS OVERSIGHT OF CERTAIN INTELLIGENCE MATTERS.

    The Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended--
            (1) paragraph (9) of section 201(d) (6 U.S.C. 121(d))--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``and'' after 
                the semicolon;
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period and 
                inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
                    ``(C) any intelligence information under this Act 
                is, to the extent practicable, shared, retained, and 
                disseminated consistent with the protection of privacy 
                rights, civil rights, and civil liberties, as 
                determined, respectively, by the Chief Privacy Officer 
                and the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil 
                Liberties.'';
            (2) in subsection (a) of section 222 (6 U.S.C. 142)--
                    (A) in paragraph (5)(B), by striking ``and'' after 
                the semicolon;
                    (B) in paragraph (6), by striking the period and 
                inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(6) coordinate with the Under Secretary for Intelligence 
        and Analysis to--
                    ``(A) ensure that any intelligence information 
                under this Act is, to the extent practicable, shared, 
                retained, and disseminated in a manner consistent with 
                the protection of the privacy rights; and
                    ``(B) provide training to intelligence personnel on 
                privacy rights, regulations, and information practices 
                as specified in section 552a of title 5, United States 
                Code (commonly referred to as the `Privacy Act of 
                1974') and other relevant laws, with a focus on 
                personnel who have authority to disseminate information 
                analyzed by the Department pursuant to paragraph (6) of 
                section 201(d) or the responsibility to review 
                information to be disseminated pursuant to paragraph 
                (6) of 201(d).''; and
            (3) in subsection (a) of section 705 (6 U.S.C. 345)--
                    (A) in paragraph (5)(B), by striking ``and'' after 
                the semicolon;
                    (B) in paragraph (6), by striking the period and 
                inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(7) coordinate with the Under Secretary for Intelligence 
        and Analysis to--
                    ``(A) ensure that any intelligence information 
                under this Act is, to the extent practicable, shared, 
                retained, and disseminated in a manner consistent with 
                the protection of civil rights and civil liberties; and
                    ``(B) provide training to intelligence personnel on 
                civil rights and civil liberties, with a focus on 
                personnel who have authority to disseminate information 
                analyzed by the Department pursuant to paragraph (6) of 
                section 201(d) or the responsibility to review 
                information to be disseminated pursuant to such 
                paragraph.''.
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