Congress 107 - HR 3069 - Securing American Families Effectively (SAFE) Act

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Administrative procedure Air piracy Airports Aliens Americans in foreign countries Armed Forces and National Security Arson Assassination Assault Biological warfare Biological weapons Bombings Cabinet officers Capital punishment Chemical warfare Chemical weapons Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Classified defense information Computer crimes Congress Congressional reporting requirements Conspiracies Conspiracy Covert operations Crime and Law Enforcement Criminal aliens Criminal investigation Criminal justice information Criminal justice information systems Data banks Department of Defense Department of Justice Department of State Destruction of property EBB Terrorism Economics and Public Finance Electronic surveillance Energy Energy facilities Environmental Protection Evidence (Law) Explosives Federal employees Federal installations Federal law enforcement officers Federal office buildings Federal officials Fingerprints Firearms Flight crews Foreign agents Gas pipelines Government Operations and Politics Harbors Homicide Identification of criminals Immigrants Immigration Intelligence officers International Affairs Kidnapping Law Life imprisonment Limitation of actions Mandatory sentences Marine and coastal resources, fisheries Marine terminals Marine transportation Members of Congress Murder Navigation Nuclear facilities Nuclear fuels Nuclear terrorism Nuclear weapons Offshore structures Pipelines Presidential protection Prosecution Protection of foreign officials Protection of officials Railroads Recruiting of employees Right of privacy Sabotage Science, Technology, Communications Searches and seizures Sentences (Criminal procedure) State-sponsored terrorism Supreme Court justices Terrorism Torture Translating and interpreting Transportation and Public Works Transportation of hazardous substances User charges Vice Presidents Violence Visas Weapons of mass destruction Wiretapping

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Securing American Families Effectively (SAFE) Act - Prohibits the granting of a visa permitting study in the United States, or the issuance of an immigration visa under the diversity immigrant program, to citizens from a country which is on the State Department's list of governments which have sponsored terrorism or which have been less than fully cooperative in anti-terrorism efforts.

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the Attorney General and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to provide the Secretary of State and the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service access to criminal history record information.

Increases: (1) the scope of persons authorized to disclose and use intercepted communications relating to foreign intelligence information; and (2) the period of electronic surveillance orders for non-U.S. persons under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

Authorizes: (1) the FBI Director to expedite the employment of translators; (2) an indictment at any time without limitation for any Federal terrorism offense; and (3) alternative maximum penalties for terrorism crimes.

Provides that any person who attempts or conspires to commit any Federal terrorism offense shall be subject to the same penalties as prescribed for the terrorism offense, with exceptions.

Makes probable cause the maximum standard for authorizing an investigation, or issuing a search warrant related to an investigation, of suspected terrorists.

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Oct 9, 2001

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Oct 9, 2001

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1835)
Oct 9, 2001

Introduced in House

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