Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the or the Uniting and Strengthening America by Reforming and Improving the Government’s High-Tech Surveillance Act of 2017 . USA RIGHTS Act of 2017 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Clarification on prohibition on querying of collections of communications to conduct warrantless queries for the communications of United States persons and persons inside the United States. Sec. 3. Prohibition on reverse targeting under certain authorities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
Sec. 4. Prohibition on acquisition, pursuant to certain FISA authorities to target certain persons outside the United States, of communications that do not include persons targeted under such authorities. Sec. 5. Prohibition on acquisition of entirely domestic communications under authorities to target certain persons outside the United States. Sec. 6. Limitation on use of information obtained under certain authority of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 relating to United States persons.
Sec. 7. Reforms of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Sec. 8. Improved role in oversight of electronic surveillance by amici curiae appointed by courts under Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Sec. 9. Reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Sec. 10. Study and report on diversity and representation on the FISA Court and the FISA Court of Review. Sec. 11. Grounds for determining injury in fact in civil action relating to surveillance under certain provisions of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
Sec. 12. Clarification of applicability of requirement to declassify significant decisions of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. Sec. 13. Clarification regarding treatment of information acquired under Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Sec. 14. Limitation on technical assistance from electronic communication service providers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Sec. 15. Modification of authorities for public reporting by persons subject to nondisclosure requirement accompanying order under Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
Sec. 16. Annual publication of statistics on number of persons targeted outside the United States under certain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 authority. Sec. 17. Repeal of nonapplicability to Federal Bureau of Investigation of certain reporting requirements under Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Sec. 18. Publication of estimates regarding communications collected under certain provision of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Sec. 19. Four-year extension of FISA Amendments Act of 2008 .