Title: To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to ensure that politically derived information is not used in an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for an order under title I or III of such Act.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill requires an application under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 for electronic surveillance or a physical search to include a certification by a designated executive branch official that none of the facts or circumstances included in the application's statement of facts were solely produced by, derived from, or collected using funds of, a political organization for gaining an advantage against an opposing political candidate.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5488 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5488

 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to ensure 
 that politically derived information is not used in an application to 
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for an order under title I 
                          or III of such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 18, 2019

  Mr. Turner 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 ensure 
 that politically derived information is not used in an application to 
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for an order under title I 
                          or III of such Act.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON USE OF POLITICALLY DERIVED INFORMATION IN 
              APPLICATIONS FOR CERTAIN ORDERS BY THE FOREIGN 
              INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT.

    (a) Title I Orders.--Section 104(a)(6) of the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1804) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``; and'' and 
        inserting a semicolon;
            (2) in subparagraph (E)(ii), by striking the semicolon and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding after subparagraph (E) the following new 
        subparagraph:
                            ``(F) that none of the facts or 
                        circumstances included in the statement 
                        described in paragraph (3) were solely produced 
                        by, derived from, or collected using funds of, 
                        a political organization (as defined in section 
                        527 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) for 
                        the purpose of gaining an advantage against, or 
                        otherwise conducting research on, an opposing 
                        political candidate.''.
    (b) Title III Orders.--Section 303(a)(6) of the Foreign 
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1823) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``; and'' and 
        inserting a semicolon;
            (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the semicolon and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding after subparagraph (E) the following new 
        subparagraph:
                            ``(F) that none of the facts or 
                        circumstances included in the statement 
                        described in paragraph (3) were solely produced 
                        by, derived from, or collected using funds of, 
                        a political organization (as defined in section 
                        527 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) for 
                        the purpose of gaining an advantage against, or 
                        otherwise conducting research on, an opposing 
                        political candidate.''.
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