US Congress Senate Bill 3242 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: Introduced on January 28 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020

Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Steve Daines [R-MT]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-28	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB1942 (Related) 2019-05-03 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
HB5675 (Same As) 2020-01-30 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, and Accountability.
SB936 (Related) 2019-03-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3242/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3242/BILLS-116s3242is.pdf