[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2660 Introduced in Senate (IS)]


109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2660

    To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require notice to 
Congress of certain declassifications of intelligence information, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 26, 2006

Mrs. Feinstein introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
            referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require notice to 
Congress of certain declassifications of intelligence information, and 
                          for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. NOTICE TO CONGRESS OF CERTAIN DECLASSIFICATIONS OF 
              INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION.

    (a) Notice Required.--
            (1) In general.--Title V of the National Security Act of 
        1947 (50 U.S.C. 413 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
        the following new section:

   ``notice to congress on certain declassifications of intelligence

    ``Sec. 508. (a) Notice Required.--Not later than 15 days after the 
date of the declassification of any intelligence by the President, or 
Vice President if authorized by Executive Order or other delegation of 
authority from the President, the President shall submit to the 
congressional intelligence committees notice on the declassification of 
such intelligence.
    ``(b) Sense of Congress on Additional Notice.--It is the sense of 
Congress that, in furtherance of the protection of intelligence sources 
and methods and to ensure appropriate handling and dissemination of 
intelligence, any notice submitted to the congressional intelligence 
committees under subsection (a) should also be submitted to--
            ``(1) the Director of National Intelligence;
            ``(2) the Archivist of the United States; and
            ``(3) the heads of applicable elements of the intelligence 
        community.
    ``(c) Exception.--This section does not apply to the 
declassification of intelligence done as part of the mandatory or 
systematic declassification of information as described by section 3 of 
Executive Order No. 13292, of March 25, 2003, or any successor 
Executive Order.''.
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of contents for that Act 
        is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 507 
        the following new item:

``Sec. 508. Notice to Congress on certain declassifications of 
                            intelligence.''.
    (b) Reports to Congress on Certain Officials Authorized To 
Declassify Information.--
            (1) Initial report.--Not later than 15 days after the date 
        of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the 
        congressional intelligence committees a report setting forth a 
        current list of each official of the Executive Office of the 
        President, other than the President, who is authorized to 
        declassify information other than information originally 
        classified by such official.
            (2) Updates.--Not later than 15 days after adding or 
        removing an official from the list required by paragraph (1), 
        the President shall submit to the congressional intelligence 
        committees an update of the list and a notice of the addition 
        or removal of such official from the list.
            (3) Congressional intelligence committees defined.--In this 
        subsection, the term ``congressional intelligence committees'' 
        means--
                    (A) the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
                Senate; and
                    (B) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
                of the House of Representatives.
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