Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
Latest action · Oct 30, 2020 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 463.
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.
- IntroducedJul 30, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
This bill authorizes various intelligence-related activities for FY2021 and contains other related provisions.
The bill's provisions include those
- requiring each intelligence community element to notify Congress before conducting certain activities, including providing support to a government response to a domestic civil disturbance, with some exceptions, or engaging in an activity pursuant to a presidential emergency action document;
- generally prohibiting the intelligence community from awarding a contract for a national security satellite that uses a star tracker not produced in the United States;
- providing for paid leave for a civilian intelligence community employee to address a serious health condition;
- establishing the Office of the Ombudsman for Analytic Objectivity;
- requiring the Department of Homeland Security to establish an intelligence and cybersecurity diversity fellowship program, which may provide an eligible individual with a paid internship or employment offer upon graduation;
- imposing certain protections related to intelligence community inspectors general, such as by limiting when the President may remove such an inspector general and limiting who may serve as an acting inspector general;
- providing for criminal penalties in certain instances for a federal government employee or officer who knowingly and willfully discloses the identity of an intelligence community whistleblower;
- requiring a political committee to report certain foreign contacts and establishing criminal penalties for violations of such requirements in certain instances; and
- prohibiting the use of funds made available to the intelligence community for FY2021 to enable or assist air strikes in Yemen by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee | Referred Jul 30, 2020Markup Jul 31, 2020Reported Oct 30, 2020 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 30, 2020Reported by the Committee on Intelligence. H. Rept. 116-565.
- Oct 30, 2020Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 463.
- Jul 31, 2020Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jul 31, 2020Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 11 - 8.
- Jul 30, 2020Introduced in House
- Jul 30, 2020Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Lists H4189H.R. 7856–7892 | — | Jul 30, 2020 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Dec 1, 2020H.R. 7856, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021As reported by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on October 30, 2020
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 166, no. 135, July 30, 2020, page H4189.
CRS reports 2
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 2
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF10799 | Prospects for U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Energy Cooperation | Resource | May 26, 2026 |
| R46304 | COVID-19: China Medical Supply Chains and Broader Trade Issues | Report | Dec 23, 2020 |
Related bills 4
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 6624 | USA Telecommunications Act | Related bill | Nov 18, 2020 |
| HR 7225 | The Global Pandemic NIE Act of 2020 | Related bill | Jun 15, 2020 |
| HR 8763 | To direct the Director of National Intelligence to award contracts or grants, or enter into transactions other than contracts, to encourage microelectronics research in support of artificial intelligence. | Related bill | Nov 17, 2020 |
| HR 8993 | Department of Homeland Security Intelligence and Cybersecurity Diversity Fellowship Program Act | Related bill | Dec 16, 2020 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Advisory bodies
- Afghanistan
- Air quality
- Alliances
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Armenia
- Arms control and nonproliferation
- Art, artists, authorship
- Asia
- Aviation and airports
- Azerbaijan
- Buy American requirements
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- China
- Civil actions and liability
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coast guard
- Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Conflicts and wars
- Congressional oversight
- Crime victims
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Criminal justice information and records
- Defense spending
- Department of Defense
- Department of Energy
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Justice
- Department of State
- Department of the Treasury
- Detention of persons
- Director of National Intelligence
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Economic performance and conditions
- Education programs funding
- Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employee hiring
- Employee leave
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Federal officials
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Hate crimes
- Health information and medical records
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Higher education
- Homeland security
- Hong Kong
- Human rights
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Infrastructure development
- Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
- International law and treaties
- International organizations and cooperation
- Law enforcement administration and funding
- Marine and inland water transportation
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Middle East
- Military assistance, sales, and agreements
- Military civil functions
- Military education and training
- Military facilities and property
- Military operations and strategy
- Militias and paramilitary groups
- Minority education
- Minority employment
- National Security Agency
- News media and reporting
- Nuclear power
- Nuclear weapons
- Pacific Ocean
- Policy sciences
- Political movements and philosophies
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
- Protest and dissent
- Public contracts and procurement
- Public participation and lobbying
- Public-private cooperation
- Qatar
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
- Right of privacy
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Science and engineering education
- Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
- Spacecraft and satellites
- Student aid and college costs
- Subversive activities
- Telephone and wireless communication
- Terrorism
- Trade agreements and negotiations
- United Arab Emirates
- Violent crime
- War and emergency powers
- Women's rights
- Worker safety and health
- World health
- Yemen
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 30, 2020Reported in House
- Jul 30, 2020Introduced in House
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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
