What the bill does
Reforming Intelligence and Securing America ActThis act reauthorizes Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years and makes changes to FISA, including expanding restrictions on surveillance under Section 702. (Section 702 concerns acquiring communications of non-U. S. persons believed to be outside the United States to obtain foreign intelligence information. Information about U. S. persons may incidentally be acquired by this type of surveillance and subsequently searched or queried under certain circumstances.) Changes to FISA includerequiring applications for electronic surveillance or a physical search under FISA to be supported by sworn statements and limiting the use of information derived from political organizations or media sources in such applications;requiring any extension of an order for electronic surveillance under FISA targeting a U. S. person to be granted or denied by the same judge who issued the original order to the extent practicable and absent exigent circumstances;providing that specified congressional leaders are entitled to attend any proceeding of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (FISC-R) and that each such leader may also designate up to two staff members to attend on his or her behalf;repealing the authority to resume abouts collection (i.e., intentionally acquiring communications that contain a reference to, but are not to or from, a target of acquisition authorized under section 702(a) of FISA);increasing certain criminal and civil…
Subjects: Civil actions and liability, Computers and information technology, Congressional leadership, Congressional oversight, Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation, Criminal justice information and records, Criminal procedure and sentencing, Evidence and witnesses, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Government information and archives