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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · H.R. 8512 (Reported in House) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United S... · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the . Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. Title I—Intelligence Activities Sec. 101. Authorization of appropriations. Sec. 102. Classified schedule of authorizations. Sec. 103. Intelligence Community Management Account. Title II—Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Sec. 201. Authorization of appropriations.
Title III—General Intelligence Matters Sec. 301. Restriction on conduct of intelligence activities. Sec. 302. Increase in employee compensation and benefits authorized by law. Sec. 303. Statute of limitation for espionage offenses. Sec. 304. Secure communication between Congress and intelligence community. Sec. 305. Commission to examine the national security and defense risks to the United States posed by anomalous health incidents. Title IV—Matters Relating to National Intelligence Enterprise Subtitle A—Miscellaneous Authorities and Limitations Sec. 401.
Congressional notifications and summaries of misconduct regarding employees within the intelligence community. Sec. 402. Improvements to urgent concerns submitted to Inspectors General of the Intelligence Community. Sec. 403. Protection for individuals making authorized disclosures to Inspectors General of elements of the intelligence community. Sec. 404. Clarification of authority of certain Inspectors General to receive protected disclosures. Sec. 405. Codification of the National Intelligence Management Council.
Sec. 406. Analyses and impact statements regarding proposed investment into the United States. Sec. 407. Responsibilities and authorities of the Director of National Intelligence. Sec. 408. Enabling intelligence community integration. Sec. 409. Protection of intelligence sources and methods. Sec. 410. Department of Homeland Security intelligence support for State Governors. Sec. 411. Authorization relating to certain intelligence and counterintelligence activities of Coast Guard.
Sec. 412. Requirements with respect to access of foreign nationals to Department of Energy National Laboratories. Sec. 413. Formalized counterintelligence training for Department of Energy personnel. Sec. 414. Federal Bureau of Investigation proactive cyber support. Sec. 415. Requirements relating to confidential human source program of Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sec. 416. Congressional notice of FBI counterintelligence investigations into individuals who hold or are candidates for Federal elected office.
Sec. 417. Intelligence Community Counterintelligence Office at the Department of Transportation. Sec. 418. Ukraine lessons learned Working Group. Sec. 419. Modification to waiver for post-service employment restrictions. Sec. 420. Prohibition of funds for Intelligence Experts Group. Sec. 421. Prohibition on availability of funds for certain activities of the Overt Human Intelligence and Open Source Intelligence Collection Programs of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security.
Sec. 422. Limitation on availability of funds for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence pending submission of information regarding improvements relating to intelligence community staffing, details, and assignments. Subtitle B—Reports and Other Matters Sec. 431. Foreign malign influence interagency guidance. Sec. 432. Foreign malign influence standard operating procedures. Sec. 433. Intelligence support for certain executive branch departments and agencies. Sec. 434.
Intelligence community recruitment for certain security-cleared separating Military Members. Sec. 435. Strategy to strengthen intelligence community recruitment efforts in the United States territories. Sec. 436. Extension of requirement for annual report on strikes undertaken by the United States against terrorist targets outside areas of active hostilities. Sec. 437. Advisability and feasibility study on updating intelligence sharing regulations. Sec. 438. Budget transparency for open-source intelligence activities.
Sec. 439. Enhancing public-private sharing on manipulative adversary practices in critical mineral projects. Sec. 440. Briefing on policies and procedures for addressing threats from known or suspected terrorists. Sec. 441. Assessment on intelligence relationship between Egypt and Israel. Sec. 442. Intelligence assessment of economic coercion by the People’s Republic of China in the Indo-Pacific region and strategies to enhance the economic resilience of countries in the Indo-Pacific region.
Sec. 443. Report on the mission effect of civilian harm. Sec. 444. Report on the economic outlook of China. Sec. 445. Repeal of requirement with respect to assessments regarding the Northern Triangle and Mexico. Title V—Matters Relating to Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture Sec. 501. Sense of Congress on the need for increased effort and resources in the field of geomatics. Sec. 502. Department of Defense Senior Intelligence Oversight Official. Sec. 503. Extension and modification of Department of Defense intelligence and counterintelligence expense authority.
Sec. 504. Authority of Army counterintelligence agents. Sec. 505. Modifications to notification on the provision of Defense sensitive support. Sec. 506. Revision of Secretary of Defense authority to engage in commercial activities as security for intelligence collection activities. Sec. 507. Promulgating guidance related to certain Department of Defense contracts. Sec. 508. Sense of Congress on Space Force acquisition workforce. Title VI—Matters Relating to Central Intelligence Agency Sec. 601.
Requirements for the Special Victim Investigator. Sec. 602. Reserve for Contingencies notification requirement. Sec. 603. Government Accountability Office study and report on modernization initiative of the Central Intelligence Agency. Title VII—Matters Relating to Technology and Innovation Sec. 701. Sensitive compartmented information facility accreditation. Sec. 702. Study of intelligence community research security. Sec. 703. Report on biotechnology. Sec. 704. Data with respect to timeliness of security clearance determinations.
Sec. 705. Data with respect to timeliness of polygraph examinations.
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