Intelligence Oversight and Accountability Act of 2013

Intelligence Oversight and Accountability Act of 2013 - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to revise congressional reporting requirements with respect to FISA court decisions.

Requires the Attorney General (DOJ), within 45 days after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review issues a decision, order, or opinion that includes a denial or modification of a request for an order, or that results in a change of application or a new application of FISA, to submit to Congress a copy of such decision and any associated pleadings, applications, or memoranda of law. (Currently, the Attorney General submits such materials only with respect to decisions that the Attorney General determines are a significant construction or interpretation of FISA.)

Directs the Attorney General to include with such court documents a brief statement (a summary) of the relevant background factual information, questions of law, legal analysis, and decision rendered.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3103 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3103

 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to modify 
 the reporting requirements for decisions of the Foreign Intelligence 
                          Surveillance Court.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 16, 2013

 Mr. Thompson of California (for himself, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. Gutierrez, 
 and Mr. Forbes) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Select Committee 
  on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to modify 
 the reporting requirements for decisions of the Foreign Intelligence 
                          Surveillance Court.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Intelligence Oversight and 
Accountability Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR DECISIONS OF THE FOREIGN 
              INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT.

    Section 601(c)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 
1978 (50 U.S.C. 1871(c)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) not later than 45 days after the date on which the 
        Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the Foreign 
        Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review issues a decision, 
        order, or opinion that includes a denial of a request for an 
        order or a modification of a request for an order, or results 
        in a change of application of any provision of this Act or a 
        new application of any provision of this Act--
                    ``(A) a copy of such decision, order, or opinion 
                and any pleadings, applications, or memoranda of law 
                associated with such decision, order, or opinion; and
                    ``(B) with respect to such decision, order, or 
                opinion, a brief statement of the relevant background 
                factual information, questions of law, legal analysis, 
                and decision rendered; and''.
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