US Congress Senate Bill 1460 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: Introduced on August 1 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-08-01 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

FISA Judge Selection Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, with respect to the appointment of judges to the court established by such Act (FISA Court), to: (1) increase from 11 to 13 the number of FISA Court judges, with one judge designated from each judicial circuit; (2) authorize a chief judge of a judicial circuit to submit to the Chief Justice of the United States the name of a district judge within such circuit to fill a FISA Court vacancy; (3) allow the Chief Justice to accept the proposed replacement judge or reject such replacement and request two additional names; (4) require the Chief Justice to fill the vacancy with one of the two additional named judges; and (5) require any judge appointed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review by the Chief Justice to be confirmed by five Associate Justices. Directs the Committee on Intercircuit Assignments of the Judicial Conference of the United States to study and report on how to ensure that judges appointed to the FISA Court and the FISA Court of Review are diverse and representative.

FISA Judge Selection Reform Act of 2013

Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]
Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-08-01	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/1460/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s1460/BILLS-113s1460is.pdf