S 1621 · 113th Congress · Armed Forces and National Security

Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013

Introduced 2013-10-30· Sponsored by Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN]· Senate

Bill Progress

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House
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Enacted
Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.(2013-10-30)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to expand government reporting requirements with respect to surveillance programs under FISA and the USA PATRIOT Act. Permits persons (any individual, including any officer or employee of the federal government, or any group, entity, association, corporation, or foreign power) receiving certain production orders to make public disclosures regarding the categories of orders to which they complied and the total number of users whose information was produced. Directs the Attorney General to report annually to Congress and to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, in an unclassified form to be made available to the public, regarding orders approving electronic surveillance, pen register and trap and trace devices, the production of tangible things (commonly referred to as business records, including books, records, papers, documents, and other items), and the targeting of persons outside the United States other than U.S. persons. Sets forth the details to be included in various reports, including: the total number of applications made for orders and number of such ord…

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1 Republican