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Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015

113th Congress · Approved Dec 19, 2014 · 128 Stat. 3990

An Act

To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short Title; Table of Contents.

(a)
Short Title.— This Act may be cited as the “Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015”.
(b)
Table of Contents.— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

Sec. 2. Definitions.

Sec. 3. Budgetary effects.

TITLE I— INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

Sec. 101. Authorization of appropriations.

Sec. 102. Classified Schedule of Authorizations.

Sec. 103. Personnel ceiling adjustments.

Sec. 104. Intelligence Community Management Account.

TITLE II— CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY SYSTEM

Sec. 201. Authorization of appropriations.

TITLE III— GENERAL PROVISIONS

Subtitle A— General Matters

Sec. 301. Increase in employee compensation and benefits authorized by law.

Sec. 302. Restriction on conduct of intelligence activities.

Sec. 303. National intelligence strategy.

Sec. 304. Software licensing.

Sec. 305. Reporting of certain employment activities by former intelligence officers and employees.

Sec. 306. Inclusion of Predominantly Black Institutions in intelligence officer training program.

Sec. 307. Management and oversight of financial intelligence.

Sec. 308. Analysis of private sector policies and procedures for countering insider threats.

Sec. 309. Procedures for the retention of incidentally acquired communications.

Sec. 310. Clarification of limitation of review to retaliatory security clearance or access determinations.

Sec. 311. Feasibility study on consolidating classified databases of cyber threat indicators and malware samples.

Sec. 312. Sense of Congress on cybersecurity threat and cybercrime cooperation with Ukraine.

Sec. 313. Replacement of locally employed staff serving at United States diplomatic facilities in the Russian Federation.

Sec. 314. Inclusion of Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities in United States diplomatic facilities in the Russian Federation and adjacent countries.

Subtitle B— Reporting

Sec. 321. Report on declassification process.

Sec. 322. Report on intelligence community efficient spending targets.

Sec. 323. Annual report on violations of law or executive order.

Sec. 324. Annual report on intelligence activities of the Department of Homeland Security.

Sec. 325. Report on political prison camps in North Korea.

Sec. 326. Assessment of security of domestic oil refineries and related rail transportation infrastructure.

Sec. 327. Enhanced contractor level assessments for the intelligence community.

Sec. 328. Assessment of the efficacy of memoranda of understanding to facilitate intelligence-sharing.

Sec. 329. Report on foreign man-made electromagnetic pulse weapons.

Sec. 330. Report on United States counterterrorism strategy to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda and its affiliated or associated groups.

Sec. 331. Feasibility study on retraining veterans in cybersecurity.

SEC. 2. Definitions.

In this Act:
(1)
Congressional intelligence committees.— The term “congressional intelligence committees” means—
(A)
the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
(B)
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
(2)
Intelligence community.— The term “intelligence community” has the meaning given that term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)).

SEC. 3. Budgetary Effects.

The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010, shall be determined by reference to the latest statement titled “Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation” for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.