A bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to improve transparency, and for other purposes.

Key Points

• The bill requires the Director of National Intelligence to publicly release a secret FISA Court opinion from March 2026 about Section 702 surveillance within 14 days of enactment. This would shed light on how the government interprets its authority to collect digital communications.
• The Attorney General would have to submit yearly reports to Congress on how many times agencies asked to run sensitive queries, how many were approved or denied, and how many were actually carried out. This creates a paper trail for searches targeting politicians, religious groups, and news media.
• Significant FISA Court decisions would need to be declassified and made public within 180 days. This covers rulings that interpret the law in new ways, involve sensitive investigative matters like surveillance of public officials or journalists, or are nominated for review by a court-appointed adviser.
• Reports on intelligence community violations of law or executive orders would have to be posted online for the public to see, including retroactive publication of past reports within 180 days.
• The bill extends Section 702 surveillance authority by five weeks, pushing its expiration from June 12, 2026, to July 17, 2026, to give Congress more time to debate longer-term reforms.
• Intelligence agencies would need to estimate how often they search for information on Americans using data collected under Executive Order 12333, which operates outside the normal FISA framework. This fills a major gap in public knowledge about government surveillance of U.S. citizens.