Private Sector Call Record Retention Act

Bill: 114-s-2356
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
Introduced: 2015-12-03
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business records

Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation

Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Telephone and wireless communication

Terrorism
Latest action: action_date: 2015-12-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-12-03
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Private Sector Call Record Retention Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to require an electronic communication service provider that has been issued a FISA court order requiring it to produce call detail records (consistent with FISA requirements for the production on an ongoing basis of call detail records created before, on, or after the date of an application by the Federal Bureau of Investigation relating to an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism) to notify the Department of Justice if that service provider intends to retain its call detail records for less than 18 months.</p> <p>Such a notification must be made not less than 180 days prior to the date such service provider intends to implement such a policy. </p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2356 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES December 3, 2015 Mr. King (for himself and Mr. Cotton ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to require an electronic communication service provider that generates call detail records pursuant to an order under that Act to notify the Attorney General if the provider intends to retain such records for a period less than 18 months.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Private Sector Call Record Retention Act . 2. Notice to Attorney General on certain modification of practice on retention of call detail records by electronic communication service providers Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1861 ), as amended by section 107 of the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015 ( Public Law 114–23 ; 129 Stat. 273), is further amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (k) as subsection (l); and (2) by inserting after subsection (j) the following new subsection (k): (k) Prospective changes to existing practices related to call detail records (1) In general Consistent with subsection (c)(2)(F), an electronic communication service provider that has been issued an order to produce call detail records pursuant to an order under subsection (c) shall notify the Attorney General if that service provider intends to retain its call detail records for a period less than 18 months. (2) Timing of notice A notification under paragraph (1) shall be made not less than 180 days prior to the date such electronic communications service provider intends to implement a policy to retain such records for a period less than 18 months. .