Expansion of National Security Agency Oversight Act

Bill: 113-hr-3881
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Carney, John C., Jr. [D-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-01-15
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business records

Congressional oversight

Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation

Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Internet and video services

Internet, web applications, social media

Telephone and wireless communication

Terrorism
Latest action: action_date: 2014-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-01-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Expansion of National Security Agency Oversight Act - Amends the Foreign Intelligene Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to include the House Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations (in addition to the intelligence and judiciary committees) as congressional committees to which the Attorney General is required to report under FISA with respect to physical searches, pen register and trap and trace devices, access to certain business records for intelligence purposes, semiannual FISA reviews, and targeting of persons outside the United States to obtain intelligence information.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 3881 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 15, 2014 Mr. Carney (for himself, Ms. Hanabusa , and Mr. Connolly ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary , and in addition to the Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select) , 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 A BILL To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to provide for more transparency of the programs carried out under that Act.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Expansion of National Security Agency Oversight Act . 2. Inclusion of additional committees in certain reports under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (a) Physical searches (1) Definitions Section 301 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1821 ) is amended— (A) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively; and (B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph: (2) Appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and (B) the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. . (2) Reports Section 306 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1826 ) is amended by striking the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, and inserting the appropriate congressional committees . (b) Pen register and trap and trace devices (1) Definitions Section 401 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1841 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (4) The term appropriate congressional committees has the meaning given the term in section 301. . (2) Reports Section 406 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1846 ) is amended— (A) in subsection (a), by striking the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, and inserting the appropriate congressional committees ; and (B) in subsection (b), by striking the committees referred to in subsection (a) and to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate and inserting the appropriate congressional committees . (c) Access to certain business records Section 502 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1862 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and inserting the appropriate congressional committees ; (2) in subsection (b), by striking the House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and inserting the appropriate congressional committees ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection: (d) In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees has the meaning given the term in section 301. . (d) General oversight Section 601 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1871 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives, the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate and inserting the appropriate congressional committees ; (2) in subsection (c), by striking the committees of Congress referred to in subsection (a) and inserting the appropriate congressional committees ; (3) in subsection (d), by striking the committees of Congress referred to in subsection (a) and inserting the appropriate congressional committees ; and (4) in subsection (e)— (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; and (B) by inserting before paragraph (2) (as so redesignated) the following new paragraph: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees has the meaning given the term in section 301. . (e) Additional procedures regarding certain persons outside the United States (1) Definitions Section 701(b) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1881(b) ) is amended— (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (5) as paragraphs (2) through (6), respectively; and (B) by inserting before paragraph (2) the following new paragraph: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees has the meaning given the term in section 301. . (2) Reports Section 707(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1881f(a) ) is amended by striking the congressional intelligence committees and the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives and inserting the appropriate congressional committees .