FISA Reform Act of 2019

FISA Reform Act of 2019

This bill requires periodic reports to Congress about surveillance conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to include the identity of any individual targeted for surveillance who is associated with a candidate for President of a major party.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4046 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4046

 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to provide 
for certain changes to the semiannual report of the Attorney General to 
    Congress regarding actions taken under that Act, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 25, 2019

  Mr. Meadows (for himself, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Griffith, Mr. 
  Gosar, Mr. Mooney of West Virginia, and Mr. Harris) 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to provide 
for certain changes to the semiannual report of the Attorney General to 
    Congress regarding actions taken under that Act, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``FISA Reform Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. CHANGES TO THE SEMIANNUAL REPORT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

    Section 601(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 
(50 U.S.C. 1871(a)) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
        ``the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House 
        of Representatives, the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
        Senate, and the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate'' and inserting the following: 
        ``the Speaker and minority leader of the House of 
        Representatives and the majority leader and minority leader of 
        the Senate'';
            (2) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (3) in paragraph (5), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) the identity of any person targeted for an order 
        under this Act who is [associated with a candidate for 
        President of a major party (as defined in section 9002(6) of 
        the Internal Revenue Code of 1986)].''.
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