[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2736 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2736

 To allow entities required to comply with orders or directives under 
 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to publicly report 
 every 90 days certain aggregate information related to the compliance 
                    with such orders or directives.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2013

  Mr. Larsen of Washington (for himself and Mr. Amash) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
  and in addition to the Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent 
Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To allow entities required to comply with orders or directives under 
 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to publicly report 
 every 90 days certain aggregate information related to the compliance 
                    with such orders or directives.

    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 ``Government Surveillance Transparency 
Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN AGGREGATE INFORMATION RELATED TO ORDERS 
              UNDER THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978.

    (a) Disclosures.--The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 
(50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new title:

        ``TITLE IX--DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN AGGREGATE INFORMATION

``SEC. 901. DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN AGGREGATE INFORMATION.

    ``Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, each entity 
required to comply with an order or directive under this Act may, every 
90 days with respect to the preceding 90-day period, make publicly 
available the following information:
            ``(1) The aggregate number of orders or directives under 
        this Act with which such entity was required to comply.
            ``(2) A general description of the types of assistance, 
        information, or tangible things such entity was required to 
        provide pursuant to such orders or directives.
            ``(3) The aggregate number of each type of assistance, 
        information, or tangible things such entity was required to 
        provide pursuant to such orders or directives.
            ``(4) The aggregate number of user accounts with respect to 
        which such entity was required to provide assistance, 
        information, or tangible things pursuant to such orders or 
        directives.''.
    (b) Table of Contents Amendment.--The table of contents in the 
first section of such Act is amended by adding at the end the following 
new items:

        ``TITLE IX--DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN AGGREGATE INFORMATION

``Sec. 901. Disclosure of certain aggregate information.''.
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