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Introduced February 23, 2026 by Mike Lee · Last progress February 23, 2026
The bill strengthens privacy, transparency, and legal safeguards around FISA/Section 702 surveillance — giving Americans greater limits on collection, more oversight, and better accuracy protections — at the cost of operational friction for intelligence and law enforcement, higher administrative and litigation costs, and some risk of exposing sensitive methods or delaying intended reforms.
All Americans (including U.S. persons and journalists) will face stronger limits on intelligence collection and retention of personal data — through query restrictions, bans on buying covered personal data, and mandatory minimization/destruction — reducing intrusive surveillance and long-term retention of Americans' information.
The public and Congress gain substantially more transparency about foreign‑intelligence surveillance and Section 702 use via new public counts, unclassified summaries, DNI reporting, oversight notifications, and more granular reporting of queries and dissemination.
FISA application quality and accountability are improved because applicants must certify supporting documentation, agencies must adopt accuracy procedures and audits, and knowingly false statements to the court are criminalized — reducing the risk of erroneous or misleading surveillance orders.
Law‑enforcement and intelligence operations could be slowed in urgent national‑security investigations because of attorney‑approval requirements, pre‑query paperwork, expanded amicus review, and tighter acquisition/query limits.
More frequent, detailed reporting to Congress, broader access for amici, and expanded public statistics risk exposing sensitive methods, sources, or operational details if aggregation and handling are not tightly controlled.
New documentation, auditing, reporting, data‑handling, and compliance requirements will raise administrative costs for agencies and oversight bodies — costs borne by taxpayers — and could require hiring or new systems.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Adds recurring audits, accuracy and certification rules, pre‑query safeguards, limits on acquiring U.S.‑tied data, expanded FISC amicus roles, and broader public reporting to strengthen oversight of surveillance.
Requires new and recurring audits, accuracy checks, training, pre‑query documentation, and expanded public reporting for U.S. surveillance under FISA and section 702. It also restricts when intelligence agencies may acquire data tied to people in the United States, creates stronger FISA court amicus involvement on sensitive or novel matters, and lets the Attorney General delay implementation up to 180 days to allow technical or staffing changes. The bill adds multiple oversight layers: DOJ must audit FBI queries of 702‑acquired data every 180 days and report results to key congressional committees; the DOJ Inspector General must audit FISA compliance on a recurring three‑year cycle; FISA applications must follow new accuracy procedures and include certifications; and the Director of National Intelligence must expand public reporting about targeting, queries, disclosures, and retention. Several exceptions allow acquisition of U.S.‑tied data under narrow, defined circumstances (e.g., court orders, employment needs, emergencies) subject to minimization and destruction rules.