[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2660 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
109th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2660
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require notice to
Congress of certain declassifications of intelligence information, and
for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 26, 2006
Mrs. Feinstein introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence
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A BILL
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require notice to
Congress of certain declassifications of intelligence information, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. NOTICE TO CONGRESS OF CERTAIN DECLASSIFICATIONS OF
INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION.
(a) Notice Required.--
(1) In general.--Title V of the National Security Act of
1947 (50 U.S.C. 413 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end
the following new section:
``notice to congress on certain declassifications of intelligence
``Sec. 508. (a) Notice Required.--Not later than 15 days after the
date of the declassification of any intelligence by the President, or
Vice President if authorized by Executive Order or other delegation of
authority from the President, the President shall submit to the
congressional intelligence committees notice on the declassification of
such intelligence.
``(b) Sense of Congress on Additional Notice.--It is the sense of
Congress that, in furtherance of the protection of intelligence sources
and methods and to ensure appropriate handling and dissemination of
intelligence, any notice submitted to the congressional intelligence
committees under subsection (a) should also be submitted to--
``(1) the Director of National Intelligence;
``(2) the Archivist of the United States; and
``(3) the heads of applicable elements of the intelligence
community.
``(c) Exception.--This section does not apply to the
declassification of intelligence done as part of the mandatory or
systematic declassification of information as described by section 3 of
Executive Order No. 13292, of March 25, 2003, or any successor
Executive Order.''.
(2) Clerical amendment.--The table of contents for that Act
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 507
the following new item:
``Sec. 508. Notice to Congress on certain declassifications of
intelligence.''.
(b) Reports to Congress on Certain Officials Authorized To
Declassify Information.--
(1) Initial report.--Not later than 15 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the
congressional intelligence committees a report setting forth a
current list of each official of the Executive Office of the
President, other than the President, who is authorized to
declassify information other than information originally
classified by such official.
(2) Updates.--Not later than 15 days after adding or
removing an official from the list required by paragraph (1),
the President shall submit to the congressional intelligence
committees an update of the list and a notice of the addition
or removal of such official from the list.
(3) Congressional intelligence committees defined.--In this
subsection, the term ``congressional intelligence committees''
means--
(A) the Select Committee on Intelligence of the
Senate; and
(B) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
of the House of Representatives.
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