United States HR 8512: To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 through April 20, 2029, and for other purposes.

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119TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. 8512
To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities
of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 through
April 20, 2029, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 27, 2026
Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Permanent Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend
the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978 through April 20, 2029, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITIES OF TITLE VII OF 3
THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEIL-4
LANCE ACT OF 1978. 5
(a) EXTENSION OF REPEAL DATE OF TITLE VII.— 6
Section 403(b) of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 7
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(Public Law 110–261), as most recently amended by Pub-1
lic Law 119–84, is further amended— 2
(1) in paragraph (1) (50 U.S.C. 1881 note) by 3
striking ‘‘April 30, 2026’’ and inserting ‘‘April 20, 4
2029’’; and 5
(2) in paragraph (2) (18 U.S.C. 2511 note), in 6
the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 7
‘‘April 30, 2026’’ and inserting ‘‘April 20, 2029’’. 8
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 9
this section shall take effect on the earlier of the date of 10
the enactment of this Act or April 29, 2026. 11
SEC. 2. WARRANT REQUIREMENT FOR TARGETING FOR AC-12
QUISITION COMMUNICATIONS OF UNITED 13
STATES PERSONS. 14
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Paragraph (1) of subsection (n) 15
of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 16
of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1881a) is amended to read as follows: 17
‘‘(1) RESTRICTION.—The Federal Bureau of 18
Investigation may not ingest unminimized informa-19
tion acquired under this section into its analytic re-20
positories unless the targeted person is relevant to 21
an existing, open, predicated full national security 22
investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 23
If the subject of such predicated, full national secu-24
rity investigation is a United States person, for pur-25
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poses of this paragraph, the investigation must be 1
supported by probable cause.’’. 2
(b) REQUIREMENT.—Section 702 of such Act is fur-3
ther amended by adding at the end the following new sub-4
section: 5
‘‘(o) WARRANT REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN TAR-6
GETING.— 7
‘‘(1) PROHIBITION.—Pursuant to subsection 8
(b), no officer or employee of the United States Gov-9
ernment may intentionally target for acquisition the 10
communications of a United States person pursuant 11
to an authorization issued under subsection (a). 12
Pursuant to other provisions of this Act and the 13
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Govern-14
ment may seek a warrant or other appropriate order 15
supported by a probable cause showing to target for 16
collection the communications of a United States 17
person if there exists probable cause that the United 18
States person to whom such communications re-19
late— 20
‘‘(A) is a foreign power or an agent of for-21
eign power, in which circumstances the Govern-22
ment may seek authorization for electronic sur-23
veillance in accordance with title I, a physical 24
search in accordance with title III, or for acqui-25
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sitions in accordance with section 703, 704, or 1
705; or 2
‘‘(B) is committing or has committed a 3
crime, in which circumstances the Government 4
may seek a warrant issued pursuant to the 5
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by a court 6
of competent jurisdiction. 7
‘‘(2) PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS.—The At-8
torney General and the Director of National Intel-9
ligence shall jointly establish procedures and stand-10
ards for officers and employees of the United States 11
Government to determine the existence of probable 12
cause described in paragraph (1). 13
‘‘(3) SAVINGS PROVISION.—Nothing in this sub-14
section shall be construed to limit the authority of 15
the Government under any applicable laws or the 16
Constitution of the United States.’’. 17
(c) USE OF INFORMATION.—Paragraph (2) of section 18
706(a) of such Act (50 U.S.C. 1881e(a)) is amended to 19
read as follows: 20
‘‘(2) UNITED STATES PERSONS.—Any informa-21
tion concerning a United States person acquire