Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020

Summary

Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020 This bill 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.

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Timeline

1. 24 January 2020

   Introduced

   Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 24 January 2020

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 24 January 2020

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 30 January 2020

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, and Accountability.

   Source: Committee

Votes

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Versions

• Introduced in House · 24 January 2020 · Official file

Documents

3 official files

• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 24 January 2020

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 24 January 2020

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 24 January 2020

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Sponsors

• Zoe Lofgren · D · Sponsor
• Warren Davidson · R · Sponsor
• Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7] · D · Sponsor
• Matt Gaetz · R · Sponsor
• Earl Blumenauer · D · Sponsor
• Ted Yoho · R · Sponsor
• Thomas Massie · R · Cosponsor
• PETER DEFAZIO · D · Cosponsor
• Betty McCollum · D · Cosponsor
• Barbara Lee · D · Cosponsor
• · hshm00 · Standing
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• · hlig00 · Select
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Related records

• related to → Ending Mass Collection of Americans’ Phone Records Act
• related to → Ending Mass Collection of Americans’ Phone Records Act of 2019
• related to → Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020