To amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of that Act and the lone wolf provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to March 31, 2006.

Amends the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 to extend from December 31, 2005, to March 31, 2006, provisions of that Act and the "lone wolf" provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. (The lone wolf provision redefined "agent of a foreign power" to permit issuance of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) orders targeting terrorists without a showing that they are members of a terrorist group or agents of such a group or of any other foreign power.)

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4506 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4506

To amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions 
of that Act and the lone wolf provision of the Intelligence Reform and 
          Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to March 31, 2006.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 13, 2005

    Mr. Conyers (for himself, Mr. Berman, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Scott of 
  Virginia, Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, Mr. Dingell, Mr. Frank of 
Massachusetts, and Ms. Harman) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
   Committees on Energy and Commerce, Select Intelligence (Permanent 
 Select), and International Relations, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions 
of that Act and the lone wolf provision of the Intelligence Reform and 
          Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to March 31, 2006.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF SUNSET OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE USA PATRIOT 
              ACT AND THE LONE WOLF PROVISION OF THE INTELLIGENCE 
              REFORM AND TERRORISM PREVENTION ACT OF 2004.

    Section 224(a) of the Uniting and Strengthening America by 
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct 
Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-56; 115 Stat. 
295) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2005'' and inserting ``March 
31, 2006''.
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