[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2295 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2295

  To extend the termination date for the authority to collect certain 
records and make permanent the authority for roving surveillance and to 
   treat individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers under the 
 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 17, 2015

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To extend the termination date for the authority to collect certain 
records and make permanent the authority for roving surveillance and to 
   treat individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers under the 
 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, 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 ``Liberty Through Strength Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR COLLECTION OF CERTAIN RECORDS UNDER 
              THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978.

    Section 109(a) of the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-23; 
50 U.S.C. 1861 note) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) In General.--The amendments made by section 101 through 
section 103 shall take effect on the date that is the later of--
            ``(1) January 31, 2017; or
            ``(2) the date that the President submits to the Select 
        Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent 
        Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
        Representatives a certification that such amendments will have 
        no operational impacts on the intelligence community.''.

SEC. 3. PERMANENT AUTHORITY FOR ROVING SURVEILLANCE UNDER THE FOREIGN 
              INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978.

    Section 102(b)(1) of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and 
Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-177; 50 U.S.C. 1805 note, 
50 U.S.C. 1861 note, and 50 U.S.C. 1862 note) is amended by striking 
``and section 105(c)(2) read as they'' and inserting ``read as it''.

SEC. 4. PERMANENT AUTHORITY FOR INDIVIDUAL TERRORIST TO BE TREATED AS 
              AGENTS OF FOREIGN POWERS UNDER THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE 
              SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978.

    Section 6001 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention 
Act of 2004 (50 U.S.C. 1801 note) is amended by striking subsection 
(b).
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