[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 380 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 380

To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require the congressional 
intelligence committees to establish certain procedures to prevent the 
 unauthorized disclosure of information furnished to those committees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

 Mr. Solomon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require the congressional 
intelligence committees to establish certain procedures to prevent the 
 unauthorized disclosure of information furnished to those committees.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEDURES TO PROTECT INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION 
              FROM UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE.

    Section 501(d) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 413) 
is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)''after ``(d)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) The procedures established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall 
ensure that any Member of Congress, and any officer, staff member, or 
other employee of the Congress, who gains access under this title to 
information described in the first sentence of paragraph (1)--
            ``(A) is made subject to security procedures that are 
        comparable to those applicable to personnel of the intelligence 
        community;
            ``(B) is required to complete an appropriate background 
        investigation prior to becoming eligible to receive such 
        information under this title and regularly thereafter as long 
        as such eligibility continues;
            ``(C) is required to submit to periodic counterintelligence 
        polygraph testing administered on a random basis; and
            ``(D) is denied--
                            ``(i) in the case of a Member of Congress, 
                        continued access under this title to such 
                        information, and
                            ``(ii) in the case of an officer, staff 
                        member, or other employee of the Congress, 
                        continued employment by the Congress,
                if that individual is found to have knowingly 
                disclosed, to anyone not authorized to receive it, the 
                substance of any such information obtained through such 
                access.''.

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