Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5675
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19]
Introduced: 2020-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business records
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
First Amendment rights
Geography and mapping
Government studies and investigations
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Judges
Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Racial and ethnic relations
Right of privacy
Specialized courts
Supreme Court
Telephone and wireless communication
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2020-01-24
text: 

Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020

 
This bill imposes limitations on investigative powers provided under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), reauthorizes certain FISA programs, and makes related changes.
 
Provisions include
 
 
reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, FISA authority to obtain business records, but also repealing the power to use such authority to obtain records on an ongoing basis; 
 
excluding certain data, such as cell phone location, from FISA authority to access business records; 
 
establishing that nonpublic information collected under FISA authority may not be retained for more than three years unless the information includes foreign intelligence information; 
 
disallowing the use of FISA-collected business records for criminal, civil, or administrative proceedings except in certain instances, such as cases involving a specific cybersecurity threat from a foreign country; 
 
requiring a government entity to notify a targeted person that the entity intends to use in court business records collected under FISA; 
 
excluding cell site location and global positioning system information from FISA authority for using a pen register or trap and trace device to collect evidence; 
 
reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, the power to treat individual terrorists as foreign agents; 
 
expanding the powers of FISA court amicus curiae (outside parties appointed to assist in a case), such as by authorizing the amicus to refer a FISA court decision to the FISA Court of Review; and 
 
repealing the government's authority to use National Security Letters to obtain financial or communications records without a court order. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, and Accountability.
action_date: 2020-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, and Homeland Security, 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.
action_date: 2020-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, and Homeland Security, 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.
action_date: 2020-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, and Homeland Security, 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.
action_date: 2020-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, and Homeland Security, 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.
action_date: 2020-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, and Homeland Security, 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.
action_date: 2020-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-01-24
text: Introduced in House