Relevancy Act

Bill: 113-hr-2603
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Ross, Dennis A. [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2013-06-28
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation

Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Terrorism
Latest action: action_date: 2013-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-06-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Relevancy Act - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to authorize the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to apply for an order requiring the production of tangible things pursuant to an investigation to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a U.S. person or to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities only if the subject of such investigation is a specific person or a specific group of persons.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2603 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 28, 2013 Mr. Ross 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 allow access to certain business records only if an investigation relates to a specific individual or specific group of individuals.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Relevancy Act . 2. Limitation on access to certain business records under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to investigations of specific individuals or groups of individuals Section 501(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1861(a) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking for an investigation and inserting related to a specific person that is the subject of an investigation ; and (2) in paragraph (2)— (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period and inserting ; and ; and (C) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (C) be conducted of a specific person or specific group of persons. .