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Main Subject: Armed Forces and National Security

Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020

This bill imposes limitations on investigative powers provided under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), reauthorizes certain FISA programs, and makes related changes.

Provisions include

reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, FISA authority to obtain business records, but also repealing the power to use such authority to obtain records on an ongoing basis;
excluding certain data, such as cell phone location, from FISA authority to access business records;
establishing that nonpublic information collected under FISA authority may not be retained for more than three years unless the information includes foreign intelligence information;
disallowing the use of FISA-collected business records for criminal, civil, or administrative proceedings except in certain instances, such as cases involving a specific cybersecurity threat from a foreign country;
requiring a government entity to notify a targeted person that the entity intends to use in court business records collected under FISA;
excluding cell site location and global positioning system information from FISA authority for using a pen register or trap and trace device to collect evidence;
reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, the power to treat individual terrorists as foreign agents;
expanding the powers of FISA court amicus curiae (outside parties appointed to assist in a case), such as by authorizing the amicus to refer a FISA court decision to the FISA Court of Review; and
repealing the government's authority to use National Security Letters to obtain financial or communications records without a court order.

HR1942-116, S936-116, S3242-116,

House committee actions Actions

Committee
Jan. 30 2020	Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, and Accountability.

House floor actions Actions

IntroReferral

Jan. 24
2020

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, and Homeland Security, 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.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, and Homeland Security, 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.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, and Homeland Security, 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.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, and Homeland Security, 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.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, and Homeland Security, 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.

Library of Congress Actions

IntroReferral
Jan. 24 2020	Introduced in House Introduced in House

House bill HR5675-116

Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020

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