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This Act may be cited as the or the Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015 . USA FREEDOM Act of 2015 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Title I—FISA business records reforms Sec. 101. Additional requirements for call detail records. Sec. 102. Emergency authority. Sec. 103. Prohibition on bulk collection of tangible things.
Sec. 104. Judicial review. Sec. 105. Liability protection. Sec. 106. Compensation for assistance. Sec. 107. Definitions. Sec. 108. Inspector General reports on business records orders. Sec. 109. Effective date. Sec. 110. Rule of construction. Title II—FISA pen register and trap and trace device reform Sec. 201. Prohibition on bulk collection. Sec. 202. Privacy procedures. Title III—FISA acquisitions targeting persons outside the United States reforms Sec. 301. Limits on use of unlawfully obtained information.
Title IV—Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reforms Sec. 401. Appointment of amicus curiae. Sec. 402. Declassification of decisions, orders, and opinions. Title V—National Security Letter reform Sec. 501. Prohibition on bulk collection. Sec. 502. Limitations on disclosure of national security letters. Sec. 503. Judicial review. Title VI—FISA transparency and reporting requirements Sec. 601. Additional reporting on orders requiring production of business records; business records compliance reports to Congress.
Sec. 602. Annual reports by the Government. Sec. 603. Public reporting by persons subject to FISA orders. Sec. 604. Reporting requirements for decisions, orders, and opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. Sec. 605. Submission of reports under FISA. Title VII—Enhanced national security provisions Sec. 701. Emergencies involving non-United States persons. Sec. 702. Preservation of treatment of non-United States persons traveling outside the United States as agents of foreign powers.
Sec. 703. Improvement to investigations of international proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Sec. 704. Increase in penalties for material support of foreign terrorist organizations. Sec. 705. Sunsets. Title VIII—Safety of Maritime Navigation and Nuclear Terrorism Conventions Implementation Subtitle A—Safety of Maritime Navigation Sec. 801. Amendment to section 2280 of title 18, United States Code. Sec. 802. New section 2280a of title 18, United States Code. Sec. 803.
Amendments to section 2281 of title 18, United States Code. Sec. 804. New section 2281a of title 18, United States Code. Sec. 805. Ancillary measure. Subtitle B—Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism Sec. 811. New section 2332i of title 18, United States Code. Sec. 812. Amendment to section 831 of title 18, United States Code.