[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1075 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1075

        To provide judicial review of National Security Letters.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 25, 2011

   Mr. Paul introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
        To provide judicial review of National Security Letters.

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

SECTION 1. JUDICIAL REVIEW OF NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS.

    Section 3511 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(f) National Security Letters.--An officer or employee of the 
United States may not issue a National Security Letter under section 
270 of title 18, United States Code, section 626 or 627 of the Fair 
Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681u and 1681v), section 1114 of the 
Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3414), or section 
802(a) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 436(a)) unless--
            ``(1) the National Security Letter is submitted to a judge 
        of the court established under section 103(a) of the Foreign 
        Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803); and
            ``(2) such judge issues an order finding that a warrant 
        could be issued under rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal 
        Procedure to search for and seize the information sought to be 
        obtained in the National Security Letter.''.
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