[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3849 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3849

    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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 20, 2009

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

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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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Disclosure of Presidential 
Declassification of Intelligence Information Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. 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 of certain declassifications of intelligence 
                              information

    ``Sec. 508.  (a) Declassification of Intelligence Information.--
            ``(1) Notice required.--Not later than 15 days after the 
        date of the declassification of intelligence information by the 
        President, or Vice President if authorized by a delegation of 
        authority from the President, the President shall submit to the 
        congressional intelligence committees notice of the 
        declassification of such intelligence information.
            ``(2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the 
        declassification of intelligence information as part of a 
        mandatory or systematic declassification of information as 
        described in section 3 of Executive Order 12958 or any 
        successor Executive order.
    ``(b) Officials Authorized To Declassify Intelligence 
Information.--
    ``(1) Initial List.--The President shall submit to the 
congressional intelligence committees a list of the personnel of the 
Executive Office of the President who are authorized to declassify 
information other than information originally classified by such 
personnel.
    ``(2) Updates.--Not later than 15 days after a person is granted 
authorization to declassify information other than information 
originally classified by such person, or the authority to declassify 
such information is revoked from such person, the President shall 
submit to the congressional intelligence committees an update of the 
list referred to in paragraph (1) and notice of the addition or removal 
of a person from such list.''.
            (2) Initial list submission.--The President shall submit 
        the list required to be submitted under section 508(b)(1) of 
        the National Security Act of 1947, as added by paragraph (1) of 
        this subsection, not later than 15 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act.
            (3) Clerical amendment.--The table of contents in the first 
        section of such Act (50 U.S.C. 401 note) is amended by 
        inserting after the item relating to section 507 the following 
        new item:

``Sec. 508. Notice to Congress of certain declassifications of 
                            intelligence information.''.
    (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 section 508(a) of the National Security Act of 1947, 
as added by subsection (a)(1) of this section, should also be submitted 
to--
            (1) the Director of National Intelligence;
            (2) the Archivist of the United States; and
            (3) the heads of the applicable elements of the 
        intelligence community.
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