I 111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3849 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) 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.

1.

Short title

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

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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:

508.

Notice to Congress of certain declassifications of intelligence information

(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.