Information Sharing Improvement Act of 2004
Latest action · Jun 24, 2004 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 24, 2004
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Information Sharing Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal criminal code, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Right to Financial Privacy Act, and the National Security Act of 1947 to authorize the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to disseminate information relevant to an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities only as provided in guidelines approved by the Attorney General (currently, only for foreign intelligence collection or foreign counterintelligence investigations and only if the information is clearly relevant to another agency's authorized responsibilities).
Amends the USA PATRIOT Act to allow the disclosure of counterintelligence or foreign intelligence information obtained as part of a national security investigation (currently limited to a criminal investigation).
Amends rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to authorize the disclosure of certain grand-jury information to foreign government personnel. Authorizes: (1) a Government attorney to disclose any grand-jury matter involving specified activities, including a threat of attack, sabotage, terrorism, or clandestine intelligence-gathering, to any appropriate Federal, State, State subdivision, Indian tribal, or foreign government official for the purpose of preventing or responding to such a threat; (2) any State or other specified recipients of information under rule 6 to use the information in accordance with guidelines that the Attorney General and the Director of Central Intelligence jointly issue; and (3) the court to allow disclosure of any grand-jury matter at the request of the Government when sought by a foreign court or prosecutor for use in an official criminal investigation.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jun 24, 2004.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AZ | Jon Kyl | Original | Jun 24, 2004 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 24, 2004Introduced in Senate
- Jun 24, 2004Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- Jun 24, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/2004 S7477-7478)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- Administrative procedure
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Bank records
- Business records
- Classified defense information
- Commerce
- Consumer credit
- Counterintelligence
- Court records
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal investigation
- Criminal justice information
- Criminal procedure
- Department of Justice
- EBB Terrorism
- Federal employees
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Financial statements
- Foreign agents
- Government Operations and Politics
- Governmental investigations
- Grand jury
- International Affairs
- International cooperation
- Law
- Minorities
- Native Americans
- Sabotage
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Telephone
- Terrorism
- Wiretapping
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.