Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2014

S. 2685 · 113th Congress · Jul 29, 2014 · Lineage

A BILL

To reform the authorities of the Federal Government to require the production of certain business records, conduct electronic surveillance, use pen registers and trap and trace devices, and use other forms of information gathering for foreign intelligence, counterterrorism, and criminal purposes, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

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Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2014” or the “USA FREEDOM Act of 2014”.

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Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978

Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or a repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.).

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Jul 29, 2014viewing Placed on Calendar Senate Mr. Leahy (for himself, Mr. Lee, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Heller, Mr. Franken, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, Mr. Coons, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Markey, Ms. Hirono, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Schumer, and Mr. Sanders) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time

Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2014

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

Sec. 2 Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978

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