American Privacy Protection Act

H.R. 3920 · 113th Congress · Jan 16, 2014 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to limit the acquisition of certain business records under that Act.

This Act may be cited as the “American Privacy Protection Act”.

Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1861) is amended—

(1)

in subsection (a)—

(A)

in paragraph (1)—

(i)

by inserting “not pertaining to a United States person” after “tangible things”; and

(ii)

by striking “or to protect against” and all that follows and inserting a period; and

(B)

in paragraph (2)(B), by striking “solely upon” and all that follows and inserting a period; and

(2)

in subsection (b)(2), by striking “or to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities”.

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Jan 16, 2014viewing Introduced in House Mr. Nugent (for himself, Mr. Bentivolio, Mr. Farenthold, and Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania) 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