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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1711
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Under Secretary
for Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security
to conduct an annual audit of the information systems and bulk data
of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY27, 2025
Ms. L
EEof Florida (for herself, Mr. EVANSof Colorado, and Mr. PFLUGER)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Homeland Security
A BILL
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct
the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis of
the Department of Homeland Security to conduct an
annual audit of the information systems and bulk data
of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Depart-
ment, 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. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘DHS Intelligence and 4
Analysis Oversight and Transparency Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. ANNUAL AUDIT OF DHS OFFICE OF INTELLIGENCE 1
AND ANALYSIS INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND 2
BULK DATA. 3
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Subtitle A of title II of the Home-4
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.) is amend-5
ed by adding at the end the following: 6
‘‘SEC. 210H. ANNUAL AUDIT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS 7
AND BULK DATA. 8
‘‘(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 9
‘‘(1) A
PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -10
TEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional com-11
mittees’ means the Committee on Homeland Secu-12
rity and Governmental Affairs and the Select Com-13
mittee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Com-14
mittee on Homeland Security and the Permanent 15
Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 16
Representatives. 17
‘‘(2) B
ULK DATA.—The term ‘bulk data’ means 18
large quantities of data acquired without the use of 19
discriminants, a significant portion of which are not 20
reasonably likely to have intelligence or operational 21
value. 22
‘‘(3) D
ISCRIMINANTS.—The term 23
‘discriminants’ means identifiers and selection terms. 24
‘‘(b) A
NNUALAUDITS.—Not later than 180 days 25
after the date of the enactment of this section and annu-26
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ally thereafter, the Under Secretary for Intelligence and 1
Analysis of the Department shall conduct an audit of the 2
information systems and bulk data of the Office of Intel-3
ligence and Analysis, which shall be consistent with the 4
intelligence oversight guidelines of the Office. 5
‘‘(c) N
OTIFICATIONS.—The Under Secretary for In-6
telligence and Analysis of the Department shall provide 7
the appropriate congressional committees with— 8
‘‘(1) a notification not later than 30 days after 9
the first analysis or other intelligence use by the Of-10
fice of Intelligence and Analysis after the date of the 11
enactment of this section of any new bulk data set 12
and the associated terms and conditions; and 13
‘‘(2) an update not later than 30 days after any 14
changes to such associated terms and conditions re-15
lated to the use of such a bulk data set. 16
‘‘(d) R
EPORTS ANDREVIEW.— 17
‘‘(1) R
EPORTS TO CONGRESS .—Not later than 18
30 days after the conclusion of each audit under 19
subsection (b), the Under Secretary for Intelligence 20
and Analysis of the Department shall submit to the 21
appropriate congressional committees the findings 22
and results of such audit. 23
‘‘(2) GAO
REVIEW.—Not later than four years 24
after the date of the enactment of this section, the 25
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Comptroller General of the United States shall pro-1
vide the appropriate congressional committees a re-2
view of the implementation of the annual audit re-3
quirement under subsection (b), challenges to the 4
implementation of such requirement, and rec-5
ommendations for improving such audits.’’. 6
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of contents 7
in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 8
(Public Law 107–296; 116 Stat. 2135) is amended by in-9
serting after the item relating to section 210G the fol-10
lowing: 11
‘‘Sec. 210H. Annual audit of information systems and bulk data.’’.
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