[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3920 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3920

To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to limit the 
        acquisition of certain business records under that Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2014

   Mr. Nugent (for himself, Mr. Bentivolio, Mr. Farenthold, and Mr. 
  Thompson of Pennsylvania) 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 amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to limit the 
        acquisition of certain business records under that Act.

    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 ``American Privacy Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATIONS ON THE COLLECTION OF CERTAIN BUSINESS RECORDS UNDER 
              THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978.

    Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 
(50 U.S.C. 1861) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by inserting ``not pertaining to a 
                        United States person'' after ``tangible 
                        things''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``or to protect against'' 
                        and all that follows and inserting a period; 
                        and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``solely 
                upon'' and all that follows and inserting a period; and
            (2) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``or to protect 
        against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence 
        activities''.
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