US Congress House Bill 689 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)
Status: Introduced on February 3 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-17 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Surveillance Order Reporting Act of 2015 Permits electronic communications or remote computing service providers to report information to the public about requests and demands for information made by any government entity under a surveillance law and exempts such providers from liability with respect to that report even if the provider would otherwise be prohibited by a surveillance law from reporting that information. Allows a provider to report such information not more often than quarterly and only to the extent that the report reveals estimates of the number of such demands and requests made, the number the service provider complied with, and the numbers of users or accounts for which information was demanded, requested, or provided. Permits any estimate disclosed to be: (1) an overall estimate or broken down by categories of, or provisions of, authorizing surveillance laws; and (2) expressed in no greater detail than in a range of 100, rounded to the nearest 100s. Defines "surveillance law" to include the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and specified sections of the National Security Act of 1947, the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the federal criminal code (dealing with counterintelligence access to telephone toll and transactional records).

Surveillance Order Reporting Act of 2015

Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Ted Poe [R-TX]
Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Thomas Massie [R-KY]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]
Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
2015-02-03	House	Referred to House Financial Services
2015-02-03	House	Referred to House Intelligence (Permanent)
2015-02-03	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2015-02-03	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
2015-02-03	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/689/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr689/BILLS-114hr689ih.pdf