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Proposed Federal Senate Legislation SB3242

Legislation Overview

Title: Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020

Subject: Armed forces and national security: Business records: Congressional oversight: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation: Employment discrimination and employee rights: Evidence and witnesses: First Amendment rights: Geography and mapping: Government studies and investigations: Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information: Internet and video services: Judges: Judicial procedure and administration: Judicial review and appeals: Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board: Racial and ethnic relations: Right of privacy: Specialized courts: Supreme Court: Telephone and wireless communication: Terrorism

Description: Imposes limitations on investigative powers provided under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), reauthorizes certain FISA programs, and makes related changes. Provisions include reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, FISA authority to obtain business records, but also repealing the power to use such authority to obtain records on an ongoing basis; excluding certain data, such as cell phone location, from FISA authority to access business records; establishing that nonpublic information collected under FISA authority may not be retained for more than three years unless the information includes foreign intelligence information; disallowing the use of FISA-collected business records for criminal, civil, or administrative proceedings except in certain instances, such as cases involving a specific cybersecurity threat from a foreign country; requiring a government entity to notify a targeted person that the entity intends to use in court business records collected under FISA; excluding cell site location and global positioning system information from FISA authority for using a pen register or trap and trace device to collect evidence; reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, the power to treat individual terrorists as foreign agents; expanding the powers of FISA court amicus curiae (outside parties appointed to assist in a case), such as by authorizing the amicus to refer a FISA court decision to the FISA Court of Review; and repealing the government's authority to use National Security Letters to obtain financial or communications records without a court order.

Session: 116th Congress

Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Last Action Date: January 28, 2020

Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3242/all-info

Sponsors

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7 sponsors: Ron Wyden (D); Steve Daines (R); Edward Markey (D); Tammy Baldwin (D); Tom Udall (D); Jeff Merkley (D); Patrick Leahy (D)

History

Chamber	Date	Action
Senate	Jan 28 2020	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Texts

Type	Date	Federal Link	Text
Introduced	Jan 30 2020	federal bill text	bill text

Amendments

Title	Description	Date	State Link	Text	Adopted
There are no amendments to this bill at this time

Committee

Chamber: S

Committee Name: Judiciary

Votes

There have not been any votes on this bill

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