National Security Agency Accountability Act

National Security Agency Accountability Act - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to require the Comptroller General to report annually to the House and Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees on the effectiveness of the programs and activities carried out under such Act.

Requires each report to include: (1) an analysis of the restrictions placed on access to information obtained under such Act; (2) the number of incidents of non-compliance with such Act and a description of actions taken in response to such incidents; (3) a description of the minimization procedures used to carry out such Act and of how such procedures are verified to be in use and effective; (4) the number of applications made under each appropriate provision of such Act, the number of such applications approved by a court, and the number of times such applications resulted in an oral argument before the court; and (5) the number of times employees of or contractors to the National Security Agency (NSA) search information acquired under such Act.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3882 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3882

    To require the Comptroller General to produce annual reports on 
   programs under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2014

  Mr. Carney 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 require the Comptroller General to produce annual reports on 
   programs under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

    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 ``National Security Agency 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL ON PROGRAMS UNDER THE 
              FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978.

    (a) Report.--Title VI of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 
of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1871 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:

``SEC. 602. ANNUAL REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL.

    ``(a) Report.--The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
annually submit to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and 
the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the 
Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on the Judiciary of 
the Senate a report on the effectiveness of the programs and activities 
carried out under this Act.
    ``(b) Contents.--Each report under subsection (a) shall include--
            ``(1) an analysis of the restrictions placed on access to 
        information obtained under this Act;
            ``(2) the number of incidents of non-compliance with this 
        Act or any rule, regulation, policy, or procedure to carry out 
        this Act;
            ``(3) a description of actions taken in response to 
        incidents of non-compliance described in paragraph (2);
            ``(4) a description of the minimization procedures used to 
        carry out each provision of this Act;
            ``(5) a description of how such minimization procedures are 
        verified to be in use and effective;
            ``(6) the number of applications made under each 
        appropriate provision of this Act, the number of such 
        applications approved by a court, and the number of times such 
        applications resulted in an oral argument before the court;
            ``(7) the number of times employees of or contractors to 
        the National Security Agency search information acquired under 
        this Act; and
            ``(8) any other information the Comptroller General 
        considers appropriate.
    ``(c) Public Disclosure.--At the time of submission of each report 
required under subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall make 
publicly available an unclassified summary of such report.''.
    (b) Table of Contents Amendment.--The table of contents in the 
first section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 601 the 
following new item:

``Sec. 602. Annual report by the Comptroller General.''.
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