To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require the congressional intelligence committees to establish certain procedures to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of information furnished to those committees.

Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require congressional intelligence committees to establish procedures, including random counterintelligence polygraph testing, to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of classified and intelligence information.

 
HR 554 IH
101st CONGRESS
1st Session
 H. R. 554
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require the congressional
intelligence committees to establish certain procedures to prevent the
unauthorized disclosure of information furnished to those committees.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 19, 1989
Mr. SOLOMON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence
A BILL
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to require the congressional
intelligence committees to establish certain procedures to prevent the
unauthorized disclosure of information furnished to those committees.
  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
  States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEDURES TO PROTECT INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION FROM
UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE.
  Section 501(d) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 413)
  is amended--
  (1) by inserting `(1)'after `(d)'; and
  (2) by adding at the end the following:
  `(2) The procedures established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall ensure that
  any Member of Congress, and any officer, staff member, or other employee
  of the Congress, who gains access under this title to information described
  in the first sentence of paragraph (1)--
  `(A) is made subject to security procedures that are comparable to those
  applicable to personnel of the intelligence community;
  `(B) is required to complete an appropriate background investigation
  prior to becoming eligible to receive such information under this title
  and regularly thereafter as long as such eligibility continues;
  `(C) is required to submit to periodic counterintelligence polygraph
  testing administered on a random basis; and
  `(D) is denied--
  `(i) in the case of a Member of Congress, continued access under this
  title to such information, and
  `(ii) in the case of an officer, staff member, or other employee of the
  Congress, continued employment by the Congress,
if that individual is found to have knowingly disclosed, to anyone not
authorized to receive it, the substance of any such information obtained
through such access.'.