POISE Act

Bill: 115-hr-2645
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Murphy, Stephanie N. [D-FL-7]
Introduced: 2017-05-24
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight

Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad

Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Sanctions

Terrorism

Trade restrictions
Latest action: action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-05-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Prevention and Oversight of Intelligence Sharing with Enemies Act or the POISE Act</strong></p> <p>This bill amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require the President to&nbsp;provide the congressional intelligence committees with information about any disclosure of top secret information to a foreign&nbsp;country's&nbsp;government official, agent, or representative if the foreign country is a state sponsor of terrorism or is subject to economic sanctions by the United States.</p> <p>"Top secret" applies to information that when subject to unauthorized disclosure could be&nbsp;reasonably expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2645 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 24, 2017 Mrs. Murphy of Florida (for herself, Ms. Sinema , Mr. Gallego , Mr. Hastings , Ms. Rosen , Mr. Ted Lieu of California , Mr. Johnson of Georgia , Mr. Soto , Ms. Velázquez , Mr. Cooper , Mr. Schneider , Mr. Schrader , Mr. Gonzalez of Texas , Mr. Crist , Mr. Lipinski , Mr. David Scott of Georgia , Mr. Costa , and Ms. Blunt Rochester ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence A BILL To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to provide for congressional notification of disclosures of top secret information to certain foreign countries, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Prevention and Oversight of Intelligence Sharing with Enemies Act or the POISE Act . 2. Congressional notification of disclosure of top secret information to certain foreign countries (a) In general Subsection (a) of section 501 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3091(a) ) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph (2): (2) (A) The President shall furnish to the congressional intelligence committees any information or material concerning any disclosure of top secret information, including such information relating to sensitive intelligence sources and methods, to any government official, agent, or representative of a foreign country, which at the time of such disclosure— (i) is a state sponsor of terrorism; or (ii) is subject to economic sanctions. (B) Such information or material shall be furnished as soon as possible but in no event more than 48 hours after the disclosure is made. . (b) Definitions Subsection (f) of such section is amended to read as follows: (f) Definitions In this section: (1) The term intelligence activities includes covert actions as defined in section 503(e) of this title, and includes financial intelligence activities. (2) The term top secret information has the meaning given such term in section 1.2(a)(1) of Executive Order No. 13526, as in effect on the date of the enactment of the POISE Act. (3) The term economic sanctions means any sanctions program administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury relating to sanctions imposed— (A) pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) or any other provision of law; and (B) by reason of state-sponsored conduct or conduct by government officials. (4) The term state sponsor of terrorism means a country the government of which the Secretary of State has determined, for purposes of section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 ( 50 U.S.C. 4605(j) ) (as continued in effect pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)), section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2371 ), section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2780 ), or any other provision of law, is a government that has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism. .