Wrongful Unmasking Prevention Act

Bill: 115-hr-3585
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2017-07-28
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Latest action: action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-07-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Wrongful Unmasking Prevention Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the federal criminal code to establish new criminal offenses: </p> <ul> <li>for knowingly making a request to unminimize (i.e., unmask) nonpublic information concerning a U.S. person to access classified information for a reason other than to understand or assess foreign intelligence information, or to determine whether classified information is evidence of a crime; and</li> <li>for intentionally, knowingly, or negligently disclosing classified information to an unauthorized person.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3585 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 28, 2017 Mr. Farenthold (for himself and Mr. Gohmert ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 18, United States Code, to make it a criminal offense to knowingly make a request to access classified information concerning a United States person to be unminimized pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for a reason other than an authorized reason under that Act, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Wrongful Unmasking Prevention Act . 2. Unlawful unmasking of nonpublic information of United States persons Section 798 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (e) (1) Whoever knowingly makes a covered request to access classified information for any reason other than a reason described in paragraph (3) shall be imprisoned not more than ten years. (2) Whoever intentionally, knowingly, or negligently discloses classified information to a person, unless such person is authorized to receive such information for a reason described in paragraph (3), shall be imprisoned not more than ten years. (3) A reason described in this paragraph is any of the following: (A) To understand foreign intelligence information. (B) To assess the importance of foreign intelligence information. (C) To determine whether the classified information is evidence of a crime which has been, is being, or is about to be committed. (4) In this subsection: (A) The term covered request means a request for nonpublicly available information concerning a United States person to be unminimized pursuant to section 101, 301, 402, 501, or 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). (B) The terms foreign intelligence information and United States person have the meaning given such terms in section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1801 ). .