Preventing Unconstitutional Collection Act

Bill: 115-hr-2588
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2017-05-22
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation

Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Telephone and wireless communication
Latest action: action_date: 2017-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-05-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Preventing Unconstitutional Collection Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to require the Department of Justice's and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's procedures for targeting communications of non-U.S. persons located outside the United States to ensure that: (1) only communications sent or received by a targeted person are acquired, and (2) any selection terms used to conduct such acquisition apply to information concerning the sender or recipient and not to the contents of such communications.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2588 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 22, 2017 Ms. Gabbard (for herself, Mr. Perry , and Mr. Polis ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary , and in addition to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence , 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 codify the prohibition on the acquisition of about communications under section 702 of such Act.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Unconstitutional Collection Act . 2. Prohibition on acquisition of about communications Section 702(d) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1881a(d) ) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (3) Prohibition on acquisition of about communications The procedures adopted in accordance with paragraph (1) shall ensure that— (A) the only communications acquired, intentionally or otherwise, under subsection (a) are communications sent or received by a targeted person; (B) any selection term used to conduct such acquisition shall apply to information concerning the sender or recipient of communications, and may not apply to the contents of such communications; and (C) there are methods in place that are reasonably designed to carry out subparagraphs (A) and (B). .