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Shown Here: Introduced in House (07/11/2013)
113th CONGRESS 1st Session
H. R. 2684
To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to report and obtain court approval for broad telephony metadata
collection searches, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 11, 2013
Mr. Lynch (for
himself, Mr. Cartwright, and
Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois)
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
A BILL
To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to report and obtain court approval for broad telephony metadata
collection searches, 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
“Telephone Surveillance Accountability Act of
2013”.
SEC. 2. Limits on
Searching Telephony Metadata in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of
1978.
Section 501 of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(i) Limits on
Searching Telephony Metadata.—
“(1) COURT APPROVAL
FOR SEARCHING TELEPHONY METADATA.—No person may search telephony metadata
acquired pursuant to a production order under subsection (a)(1) unless—
“(A) the Director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation makes an application to a judge of the
court established by section 103(a) that includes a statement of facts showing
that there is a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the basis of the search
is material and specifically relevant to an authorized investigation;
and
“(B) the judge finds
that there is a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the basis of the search
is material and specifically relevant to an authorized investigation and enters
an order authorizing such search.
“(2) DEFINITIONS.—In
this subsection:
“(A) The term ‘production order’
means an order to produce any tangible thing under this section.
“(B) The term
‘telephony metadata’ means communications routing information,
including session identifying information, an original or terminating telephone
number, an International Mobile Subscriber Identity, an International Mobile
Station Equipment Identity, a trunk identifier, a telephone calling card
number, and the time or duration of a
call.”.
SEC. 3. Congressional
Oversight for Production Orders of Telephony Metadata in the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
Section 502 of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is amended by adding at the
end the following new subsection:
“(d) The Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation shall monthly submit to the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on
Intelligence of the Senate a report describing each search made during the
preceding month of telephony metadata pursuant to an order under section
501(i)(1)(B).”.
