S. 1318
Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act
Sponsor: Jerry Moran
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
Foreign Intelligence Accountability Act and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act
This bill reauthorizes Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) until April 30, 2029, and expands protections related to surveillance under Section 702 of FISA. It also prohibits a Federal Reserve bank from offering financial products or services directly to an individual, maintaining an account on behalf of an individual, or issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Section 702 of FISA 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 queried (searched) under certain circumstances.
Changes to Section 702 include requiring monthly reviews by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for each U.S. person query conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). ODNI must refer queries that do not comply with established standards, as well as possible abuses of civil liberties or privacy, to the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
The bill institutes criminal penalties for (1) those who knowingly and willingly falsify or materially misrepresent complying with querying procedures, and (2) FBI personnel who knowingly and willingly violate procedures related to U.S. person queries.
FBI supervisors may no longer approve U.S. person queries; only certain FBI attorneys may do so.
The Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors may not use a CBDC to implement monetary policy or test, study, create, or implement a CBDC, with certain exceptions.
Text of the bill
I Foreign Intelligence Accountability Act
(a) In general. Section 709 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1881h) is amended—
(1) in the heading, by striking unauthorized disclosure and inserting unauthorized disclosure and other actions;
(2) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking if that person knowingly and inserting the following: if that person—
(1) knowingly
(B) by striking party. and inserting party;; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
(2) while serving as an employee or officer of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, knowingly and willfully violates the querying procedures adopted under section 702(f)(1)(A) relating to United States person queries; or
(3) knowingly and willfully falsifies or materially misrepresents complying with the procedures or requirements for querying information acquired under section 702(a).
; and
(3) in subsection (b)—
(A) by striking offense in this section and inserting the following:
offense—
(1) in paragraph (1) of subsection (a)
(B) by striking title 18 and inserting title 18, United States Code;
(C) by striking both. and inserting both; and; and
(D) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
(2) in paragraph (2) or (3) of subsection (a), shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) Table of contents amendment. The table of contents at the beginning of such Act is amended by striking the item relating to section 709 and inserting the following new item:
Sec. 709. Penalties for unauthorized disclosure and other actions.
II Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act