Sponsor
Clay Higgins
Representative · R-LA
Representative · R-LA
The bill preserves near‑term intelligence authorities and increases oversight and privacy safeguards for U.S. persons, but it delays broader reform and adds operational, legal, and resource trade‑offs that could slow urgent national‑security work and constrain future payments innovation.
Federal intelligence and law-enforcement personnel can keep using existing FISA Title VII/Section 702 authorities for three more years, avoiding immediate operational disruptions and costly, rushed transitions of systems and procedures.
U.S. persons gain stronger privacy and criminal-procedure protections: intentional targeting of their communications would require a probable‑cause warrant, unlawfully obtained information would be inadmissible in prosecutions, and controls reduce availability of unminimized U.S. person data—backed by GAO audit authority to catch implementation flaws.
Oversight and transparency of Section 702 activity increase through mandatory FISC 90‑day reviews, quarterly congressional summaries, GAO audits and a one‑year factual report, plus guaranteed congressional access to certain FISC/FISCR proceedings, giving Congress and auditors better information to legislate or correct problems.
Extending Section 702/Title VII for three years delays comprehensive legislative reform and prolongs authorities that can allow continued collection of communications, which may perpetuate privacy harms—especially for border communities and noncitizens.
New warrant requirements, evidence‑exclusion rules, tighter ingestion limits, and narrowed approver delegations could slow urgent foreign‑intelligence targeting, reduce analysts' access to raw 702‑derived data, and make some prosecutions harder or inadmissible—potentially degrading time‑sensitive national security and law‑enforcement effectiveness.
The new oversight regime (FISC 90‑day reviews, quarterly briefings, GAO audits, expanded congressional access) will increase workload for courts, agencies, and oversight bodies, likely requiring more resources and raising administrative costs.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Extends FISA Title VII to 2029, adds warrant/probable‑cause limits and ingestion restrictions on Section 702 use, mandates GAO audit and FISC reporting, revises FISC access procedures, and bans Fed CBDC issuance until 2032 absent Congress.
Official title: To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 3, 2026 by Clay Higgins · Last progress June 3, 2026
Extends the statutory expiration of certain FISA Title VII authorities to June 12, 2029 and changes how Section 702 collection is used and overseen. It bars intentional targeting of United States persons under Section 702 without a warrant/probable‑cause order, narrows certain internal approval authorities, requires DOJ to revise FISC attendance procedures for specified Members/staff, directs a GAO audit of Section 702 targeting and implementation, and prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) through the end of 2031 (with a privacy‑preserving private digital dollar exception).