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FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017

115th Congress · Approved Jan 19, 2018 · 132 Stat. 3

An Act

To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to improve foreign intelligence collection and the safeguards, accountability, and oversight of acquisitions of foreign intelligence, to extend title VII of such Act, 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 “FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017”.
(b)
Table of Contents.— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

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

TITLE I— ENHANCEMENTS TO FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION AND SAFEGUARDS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND OVERSIGHT

Sec. 101. Querying procedures required.

Sec. 102. Use and disclosure provisions.

Sec. 103. Congressional review and oversight of abouts collection.

Sec. 104. Publication of minimization procedures under section 702.

Sec. 105. Section 705 emergency provision.

Sec. 106. Compensation of amici curiae and technical experts.

Sec. 107. Additional reporting requirements.

Sec. 108. Improvements to Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

Sec. 109. Privacy and civil liberties officers.

Sec. 110. Whistleblower protections for contractors of the intelligence community.

Sec. 111. Briefing on notification requirements.

Sec. 112. Inspector General report on queries conducted by Federal Bureau of Investigation.

TITLE II— EXTENSION OF AUTHORITIES, INCREASED PENALTIES, REPORTS, AND OTHER MATTERS

Sec. 201. Extension of title VII of FISA; effective dates.

Sec. 202. Increased penalty for unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material.

Sec. 203. Report on challenges to the effectiveness of foreign intelligence surveillance.

Sec. 204. Comptroller General study on the classification system and protection of classified information.

Sec. 205. Technical amendments and amendments to improve procedures of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.

Sec. 206. Severability.

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.).