HR 5412 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022

Fact sheet

Latest action · Oct 28, 2021 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 114.

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.

  1. IntroducedSep 29, 2021
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022

This bill authorizes various intelligence-related activities for FY2022 and addresses related issues.

For example, the bill

  • authorizes the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to support activities related to personnel recruitment and retention, diversity, equity, and inclusion;
  • prohibits certain former intelligence community personnel from accepting certain employment, such as providing intelligence services to a foreign country, for 30 months after leaving intelligence community employment;
  • provides the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the authorities available to the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice to take actions to protect against unmanned aircraft;
  • requires the Counterintelligence Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to conduct a security assessment of a product (or service) from an entity connected to China's government before the FBI may procure that product;
  • requires the FBI to establish counterintelligence units in the Department of Agriculture;
  • authorizes the Air Force to establish the National Space Intelligence Center as a field operating agency of the Space Force;
  • statutorily establishes the Office of Medical Services within the CIA and requirements concerning compensation and qualifications for CIA medical officers;
  • requires the President to develop for the intelligence community various protocols pertaining to medical testing, treatment, information collection, and reporting;
  • requires the ODNI to produce a National Intelligence Estimate on the situation in Afghanistan and specified other countries; and
  • authorizes a pilot program to identify risks associated with individuals performing Department of Defense-funded unclassified research who would not otherwise undergo federal personnel vetting.

Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

Actions 6

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Oct 28, 2021Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 114.
  2. Oct 28, 2021Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Intelligence. H. Rept. 117-156.
  3. Sep 30, 2021Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
  4. Sep 30, 2021Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
  5. Sep 29, 2021Introduced in House

Related bills 3

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HR 5709Afghanistan Security Through Intelligence ActRelated billOct 25, 2021
HR 6269Monitoring China-UAE Cooperation ActRelated billDec 14, 2021
HR 6452Gathering and Reporting Assessments Yielding Zero Overlooked Nefarious Efforts ActRelated billJan 20, 2022

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Oct 28, 2021Reported in House
  2. Sep 29, 2021Introduced in House

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