[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4598 Engrossed in House (EH)]


  2d Session

                               H. R. 4598

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                                 AN ACT

To provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal 
    intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local 
                               entities.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4598

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                                 AN ACT


 
To provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal 
    intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local 
                               entities.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Homeland Security Information 
Sharing Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Federal Government is required by the Constitution 
        to provide for the common defense, which includes terrorist 
        attack.
            (2) The Federal Government relies on State and local 
        personnel to protect against terrorist attack.
            (3) The Federal Government collects, creates, manages, and 
        protects classified and sensitive but unclassified information 
        to enhance homeland security.
            (4) Some homeland security information is needed by the 
        State and local personnel to prevent and prepare for terrorist 
        attack.
            (5) The needs of State and local personnel to have access 
        to relevant homeland security information to combat terrorism 
        must be reconciled with the need to preserve the protected 
        status of such information and to protect the sources and 
        methods used to acquire such information.
            (6) Granting security clearances to certain State and local 
        personnel is one way to facilitate the sharing of information 
        regarding specific terrorist threats among Federal, State, and 
        local levels of government.
            (7) Methods exist to declassify, redact, or otherwise adapt 
        classified information so it may be shared with State and local 
        personnel without the need for granting additional security 
        clearances.
            (8) State and local personnel have capabilities and 
        opportunities to gather information on suspicious activities 
        and terrorist threats not possessed by Federal agencies.
            (9) The Federal Government and State and local governments 
        and agencies in other jurisdictions may benefit from such 
        information.
            (10) Federal, State, and local governments and 
        intelligence, law enforcement, and other emergency preparation 
        and response agencies must act in partnership to maximize the 
        benefits of information gathering and analysis to prevent and 
        respond to terrorist attacks.
            (11) Information systems, including the National Law 
        Enforcement Telecommunications System and the Terrorist Threat 
        Warning System, have been established for rapid sharing of 
        classified and sensitive but unclassified information among 
        Federal, State, and local entities.
            (12) Increased efforts to share homeland security 
        information should avoid duplicating existing information 
        systems.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that Federal, 
State, and local entities should share homeland security information to 
the maximum extent practicable, with special emphasis on hard-to-reach 
urban and rural communities.

SEC. 3. FACILITATING HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION SHARING PROCEDURES.

    (a) Presidential Procedures for Determining Extent of Sharing of 
Homeland Security Information.--
            (1) The President shall prescribe procedures under which 
        relevant Federal agencies determine--
                    (A) whether, how, and to what extent homeland 
                security information may be shared with appropriate 
                State and local personnel, and with which such 
                personnel it may be shared;
                    (B) how to identify and safeguard homeland security 
                information that is sensitive but unclassified; and
                    (C) to the extent such information is in classified 
                form, whether, how, and to what extent to remove 
                classified information, as appropriate, and with which 
                such personnel it may be shared after such information 
                is removed.
            (2) The President shall ensure that such procedures apply 
        to all agencies of the Federal Government.
            (3) Such procedures shall not change the substantive 
        requirements for the classification and safeguarding of 
        classified information.
            (4) Such procedures shall not change the requirements and 
        authorities to protect sources and methods.
    (b) Procedures for Sharing of Homeland Security Information.--
            (1) Under procedures prescribed by the President, all 
        appropriate agencies, including the intelligence community, 
        shall, through information sharing systems, share homeland 
        security information with appropriate State and local personnel 
        to the extent such information may be shared, as determined in 
        accordance with subsection (a), together with assessments of 
        the credibility of such information.
            (2) Each information sharing system through which 
        information is shared under paragraph (1) shall--
                    (A) have the capability to transmit unclassified or 
                classified information, though the procedures and 
                recipients for each capability may differ;
                    (B) have the capability to restrict delivery of 
                information to specified subgroups by geographic 
                location, type of organization, position of a recipient 
                within an organization, or a recipient's need to know 
                such information;
                    (C) be configured to allow the efficient and 
                effective sharing of information; and
                    (D) be accessible to appropriate State and local 
                personnel.
            (3) The procedures prescribed under paragraph (1) shall 
        establish conditions on the use of information shared under 
        paragraph (1)--
                    (A) to limit the redissemination of such 
                information to ensure that such information is not used 
                for an unauthorized purpose;
                    (B) to ensure the security and confidentiality of 
                such information;
                    (C) to protect the constitutional and statutory 
                rights of any individuals who are subjects of such 
                information; and
                    (D) to provide data integrity through the timely 
                removal and destruction of obsolete or erroneous names 
                and information.
            (4) The procedures prescribed under paragraph (1) shall 
        ensure, to the greatest extent practicable, that the 
        information sharing system through which information is shared 
        under such paragraph include existing information sharing 
        systems, including, but not limited to, the National Law 
        Enforcement Telecommunications System, the Regional Information 
        Sharing System, and the Terrorist Threat Warning System of the 
        Federal Bureau of Investigation.
            (5) Each appropriate Federal agency, as determined by the 
        President, shall have access to each information sharing system 
        through which information is shared under paragraph (1), and 
        shall therefore have access to all information, as appropriate, 
        shared under such paragraph.
            (6) The procedures prescribed under paragraph (1) shall 
        ensure that appropriate State and local personnel are 
        authorized to use such information sharing systems--
                    (A) to access information shared with such 
                personnel; and
                    (B) to share, with others who have access to such 
                information sharing systems, the homeland security 
                information of their own jurisdictions, which shall be 
                marked appropriately as pertaining to potential 
                terrorist activity.
            (7) Under procedures prescribed jointly by the Director of 
        Central Intelligence and the Attorney General, each appropriate 
        Federal agency, as determined by the President, shall review 
        and assess the information shared under paragraph (6) and 
        integrate such information with existing intelligence.
    (c) Sharing of Classified Information and Sensitive but 
Unclassified Information With State and Local Personnel.--
            (1) The President shall prescribe procedures under which 
        Federal agencies may, to the extent the President considers 
        necessary, share with appropriate State and local personnel 
        homeland security information that remains classified or 
        otherwise protected after the determinations prescribed under 
        the procedures set forth in subsection (a).
            (2) It is the sense of Congress that such procedures may 
        include one or more of the following means:
                    (A) Carrying out security clearance investigations 
                with respect to appropriate State and local personnel.
                    (B) With respect to information that is sensitive 
                but unclassified, entering into nondisclosure 
                agreements with appropriate State and local personnel.
                    (C) Increased use of information-sharing 
                partnerships that include appropriate State and local 
                personnel, such as the Joint Terrorism Task Forces of 
                the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Anti-Terrorism 
                Task Forces of the Department of Justice, and regional 
                Terrorism Early Warning Groups.
    (d) Responsible Officials.--For each affected Federal agency, the 
head of such agency shall designate an official to administer this Act 
with respect to such agency.
    (e) Federal Control of Information.--Under procedures prescribed 
under this section, information obtained by a State or local government 
from a Federal agency under this section shall remain under the control 
of the Federal agency, and a State or local law authorizing or 
requiring such a government to disclose information shall not apply to 
such information.
    (f) Definitions.--As used in this section:
            (1) The term ``homeland security information'' means any 
        information possessed by a Federal, State, or local agency 
        that--
                    (A) relates to the threat of terrorist activity;
                    (B) relates to the ability to prevent, interdict, 
                or disrupt terrorist activity;
                    (C) would improve the identification or 
                investigation of a suspected terrorist or terrorist 
                organization; or
                    (D) would improve the response to a terrorist act.
            (2) The term ``intelligence community'' has the meaning 
        given such term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 
        1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)).
            (3) The term ``State and local personnel'' means any of the 
        following persons involved in prevention, preparation, or 
        response for terrorist attack:
                    (A) State Governors, mayors, and other locally 
                elected officials.
                    (B) State and local law enforcement personnel and 
                firefighters.
                    (C) Public health and medical professionals.
                    (D) Regional, State, and local emergency management 
                agency personnel, including State adjutant generals.
                    (E) Other appropriate emergency response agency 
                personnel.
                    (F) Employees of private-sector entities that 
                affect critical infrastructure, cyber, economic, or 
                public health security, as designated by the Federal 
                government in procedures developed pursuant to this 
                section.
            (4) The term ``State'' includes the District of Columbia 
        and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United 
        States.

SEC. 4. REPORT.

    (a) Report Required.--Not later than 12 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the 
congressional committees specified in subsection (b) a report on the 
implementation of section 3. The report shall include any 
recommendations for additional measures or appropriation requests, 
beyond the requirements of section 3, to increase the effectiveness of 
sharing of information among Federal, State, and local entities.
    (b) Specified Congressional Committees.--The congressional 
committees referred to in subsection (a) are the following committees:
            (1) The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the 
        Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.
            (2) The Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee 
        on the Judiciary of the Senate.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out section 3.

SEC. 6. AUTHORITY TO SHARE GRAND JURY INFORMATION.

    Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``, or of guidelines 
        jointly issued by the Attorney General and Director of Central 
        Intelligence pursuant to Rule 6,'' after ``Rule 6''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by inserting ``or of a 
                foreign government'' after ``(including personnel of a 
                state or subdivision of a state'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (C)(i)--
                            (i) in subclause (I), by inserting before 
                        the semicolon the following: ``or, upon a 
                        request by an attorney for the government, when 
                        sought by a foreign court or prosecutor for use 
                        in an official criminal investigation'';
                            (ii) in subclause (IV)--
                                    (I) by inserting ``or foreign'' 
                                after ``may disclose a violation of 
                                State'';
                                    (II) by inserting ``or of a foreign 
                                government'' after ``to an appropriate 
                                official of a State or subdivision of a 
                                State''; and
                                    (III) by striking ``or'' at the 
                                end;
                            (iii) by striking the period at the end of 
                        subclause (V) and inserting ``; or''; and
                            (iv) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(VI) when matters involve a threat of 
                        actual or potential attack or other grave 
                        hostile acts of a foreign power or an agent of 
                        a foreign power, domestic or international 
                        sabotage, domestic or international terrorism, 
                        or clandestine intelligence gathering 
                        activities by an intelligence service or 
                        network of a foreign power or by an agent of a 
                        foreign power, within the United States or 
                        elsewhere, to any appropriate federal, state, 
                        local, or foreign government official for the 
                        purpose of preventing or responding to such a 
                        threat.''; and
                    (C) in subparagraph (C)(iii)--
                            (i) by striking ``Federal'';
                            (ii) by inserting ``or clause (i)(VI)'' 
                        after ``clause (i)(V)''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following: 
                        ``Any state, local, or foreign official who 
                        receives information pursuant to clause (i)(VI) 
                        shall use that information only consistent with 
                        such guidelines as the Attorney General and 
                        Director of Central Intelligence shall jointly 
                        issue.''.

SEC. 7. AUTHORITY TO SHARE ELECTRONIC, WIRE, AND ORAL INTERCEPTION 
              INFORMATION.

    Section 2517 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(7) Any investigative or law enforcement officer, or attorney for 
the government, who by any means authorized by this chapter, has 
obtained knowledge of the contents of any wire, oral, or electronic 
communication, or evidence derived therefrom, may disclose such 
contents or derivative evidence to a foreign investigative or law 
enforcement officer to the extent that such disclosure is appropriate 
to the proper performance of the official duties of the officer making 
or receiving the disclosure, and foreign investigative or law 
enforcement officers may use or disclose such contents or derivative 
evidence to the extent such use or disclosure is appropriate to the 
proper performance of their official duties.
    ``(8) Any investigative or law enforcement officer, or attorney for 
the government, who by any means authorized by this chapter, has 
obtained knowledge of the contents of any wire, oral, or electronic 
communication, or evidence derived therefrom, may disclose such 
contents or derivative evidence to any appropriate Federal, State, 
local, or foreign government official to the extent that such contents 
or derivative evidence reveals a threat of actual or potential attack 
or other grave hostile acts of a foreign power or an agent of a foreign 
power, domestic or international sabotage, domestic or international 
terrorism, or clandestine intelligence gathering activities by an 
intelligence service or network of a foreign power or by an agent of a 
foreign power, within the United States or elsewhere, for the purpose 
of preventing or responding to such a threat. Any official who receives 
information pursuant to this provision may use that information only as 
necessary in the conduct of that person's official duties subject to 
any limitations on the unauthorized disclosure of such information, and 
any State, local, or foreign official who receives information pursuant 
to this provision may use that information only consistent with such 
guidelines as the Attorney General and Director of Central Intelligence 
shall jointly issue.''.

SEC. 8. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION.

    (a) Dissemination Authorized.--Section 203(d)(1) of the Uniting and 
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to 
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT ACT) of 2001 (Public 
Law 107-56; 50 U.S.C. 403-5d) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, it'' and inserting ``It''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following: ``It shall be 
        lawful for information revealing a threat of actual or 
        potential attack or other grave hostile acts of a foreign power 
        or an agent of a foreign power, domestic or international 
        sabotage, domestic or international terrorism, or clandestine 
        intelligence gathering activities by an intelligence service or 
        network of a foreign power or by an agent of a foreign power, 
        within the United States or elsewhere, obtained as part of a 
        criminal investigation to be disclosed to any appropriate 
        Federal, State, local, or foreign government official for the 
        purpose of preventing or responding to such a threat. Any 
        official who receives information pursuant to this provision 
        may use that information only as necessary in the conduct of 
        that person's official duties subject to any limitations on the 
        unauthorized disclosure of such information, and any State, 
        local, or foreign official who receives information pursuant to 
        this provision may use that information only consistent with 
        such guidelines as the Attorney General and Director of Central 
        Intelligence shall jointly issue.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 203(c) of that Act is amended--
            (1) by striking ``section 2517(6)'' and inserting 
        ``paragraphs (6) and (8) of section 2517 of title 18, United 
        States Code,''; and
            (2) by inserting ``and (VI)'' after ``Rule 
        6(e)(3)(C)(i)(V)''.

SEC. 9. INFORMATION ACQUIRED FROM AN ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE.

    Section 106(k)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 
1978 (50 U.S.C. 1806) is amended by inserting after ``law enforcement 
officers'' the following: ``or law enforcement personnel of a State or 
political subdivision of a State (including the chief executive officer 
of that State or political subdivision who has the authority to appoint 
or direct the chief law enforcement officer of that State or political 
subdivision)''.

SEC. 10. INFORMATION ACQUIRED FROM A PHYSICAL SEARCH.

    Section 305(k)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 
1978 (50 U.S.C. 1825) is amended by inserting after ``law enforcement 
officers'' the following: ``or law enforcement personnel of a State or 
political subdivision of a State (including the chief executive officer 
of that State or political subdivision who has the authority to appoint 
or direct the chief law enforcement officer of that State or political 
subdivision)''.

            Passed the House of Representatives June 26, 2002.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.