3.0.0 2599 2023-01-15T04:49:22Z 2023-01-15T04:49:22Z Senate S S 2004-06-24 108 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2004-06-25T00:01:19Z 2004-06-24 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2004-06-24 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/2004 S7477-7478) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2004-06-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000286 Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA] SAXBY CHAMBLISS R GA N K000352 Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ] Jon Kyl R AZ Llewellyn 2004-06-24 True Crime and Law Enforcement Administrative procedure Armed Forces and National Security Bank records Business records Classified defense information Commerce Consumer credit Counterintelligence Court records Criminal investigation Criminal justice information Criminal procedure Department of Justice EBB Terrorism Federal employees Federal-Indian relations Federal-local relations Federal-state relations Finance and Financial Sector Financial statements Foreign agents Government Operations and Politics Governmental investigations Grand jury International Affairs International cooperation Law Minorities Native Americans Sabotage Science, Technology, Communications Telephone Terrorism Wiretapping Crime and Law Enforcement 00 2004-06-24 Introduced in Senate 2004-11-09T21:34:44Z Information Sharing Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal criminal code, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Right to Financial Privacy Act, and the National Security Act of 1947 to authorize the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to disseminate information relevant to an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities only as provided in guidelines approved by the Attorney General (currently, only for foreign intelligence collection or foreign counterintelligence investigations and only if the information is clearly relevant to another agency's authorized responsibilities).

Amends the USA PATRIOT Act to allow the disclosure of counterintelligence or foreign intelligence information obtained as part of a national security investigation (currently limited to a criminal investigation).

Amends rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to authorize the disclosure of certain grand-jury information to foreign government personnel. Authorizes: (1) a Government attorney to disclose any grand-jury matter involving specified activities, including a threat of attack, sabotage, terrorism, or clandestine intelligence-gathering, to any appropriate Federal, State, State subdivision, Indian tribal, or foreign government official for the purpose of preventing or responding to such a threat; (2) any State or other specified recipients of information under rule 6 to use the information in accordance with guidelines that the Attorney General and the Director of Central Intelligence jointly issue; and (3) the court to allow disclosure of any grand-jury matter at the request of the Government when sought by a foreign court or prosecutor for use in an official criminal investigation.

]]> Information Sharing Improvement Act of 2004 Display Title Information Sharing Improvement Act of 2004 Official Title as Introduced A bill to strengthen anti-terrorism investigative tools, to enhance prevention and prosecution of terrorist crimes, to combat terrorism financing, to improve border and transportation security, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Information Sharing Improvement Act of 2004 Introduced in Senate 2004-06-24T04:00:00Z 2004-06-24 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.