FISA Title VII Surveillance Authorities (Section 702 Reauthorization)

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

Evidence log

• 2026-05-13 — A bill to extend section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 for 3 years.: S.4344 (introduced) would extend Section 702 of FISA for three years, a routine multi-year reauthorization with no accompanying substantive amendments. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-04-30 — A bill to amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 through May 21, 2026, and for other purposes.: S.4444 proposes to extend Title VII/Section 702 authorities through May 21, 2026 — an incremental legislative extension rather than substantive amendment. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-04-27 — A bill to require a report on the use of artificial intelligence with respect to access to unminimized information collected pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.: S.4402 (introduced) would require a report on the use of artificial intelligence to access unminimized information collected under FISA, adding an AI-specific oversight layer to the Title VII collection framework without changing underlying query authorities. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-21 — Protection Against Mass Surveillance Act: cross-connection with protection-against-mass-surveillance-act: Both address statutory limits on federal surveillance authorities; HR9800 would layer additional mass-surveillance protections alongside the FISA Section 702 framework. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-05 — Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act: Introduced bill (styled ‘Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act’) would reauthorize Section 702 through April 2029 and package it with a Federal Reserve CBDC prohibition, retaining the ODNI monthly review, attorney-only U.S. person query approval, and criminal penalties for compliance falsification. (novelty: 3)

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