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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · H.R. 7888 (Engrossed in House) — To reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. · Sec. 16

Sec. 16. Accountability standards for incidents relating to queries conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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(f)of section 702, as amended by this Act, is further amended by inserting after paragraph
(3)the following new paragraph: The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall issue minimum accountability standards that set forth escalating consequences for noncompliant querying of United States person terms within the contents of communications that were acquired under this section. Such standards shall include, at minimum, the following: Zero tolerance for willful misconduct. Escalating consequences for unintentional noncompliance, including the threshold for mandatory revocation of access to query information acquired under this section. Consequences for supervisors who oversee users that engage in noncompliant queries. . Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall issue the minimum accountability standards required under subsection (f)(4) of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1881a ). Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees the minimum accountability standards issued under paragraph (1). Not later than December 1, 2024, and annually thereafter for 3 years, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report detailing each adverse personnel action taken pursuant to the minimum accountability standards and a description of the conduct that led to each such action. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional intelligence committees, as such term is defined in subsection
(b)of section 701 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1881 ); and the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate.
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