H.R. 7901

Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2026

Sponsor: Warren Davidson

5 cosponsors
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I Protections for United States persons whose communications are collected under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978

II Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act

III Additional reforms relating to activities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978

IV Reforms related to surveillance conducted for foreign intelligence purposes other than under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978

V Independent oversight

Sec. 502. Intelligence community parity and communications with Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

(a) Whistleblower protections for members of intelligence community for communications with Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Section 1104 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3234) is amended—

(1) in subsection (b)(1), in the matter before subparagraph (A), by inserting the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, after Inspector General of the Intelligence Community,; and

(2) in subsection (c)(1)(A), in the matter before clause (i), by inserting the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, after Inspector General of the Intelligence Community,.

(b) Parity in pay for Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board staff and the intelligence community. Section 1061(j)(1) of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (42 U.S.C. 2000ee(j)(1)) is amended by striking except that and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting except that no rate of pay fixed under this subsection may exceed the highest amount paid by any element of the intelligence community for a comparable position, based on salary information provided to the chairman of the Board by the Director of National Intelligence..

VI Reforms to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986

VII Protection of car data from Federal warrantless searches

VIII Intelligence transparency

IX Severability and limited delays in implementation