US Congress Senate Bill 1589 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on May 22 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-06-11 - By Senator Burr from Select Committee on Intelligence filed written report. Report No. 116-47. Additional views filed.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Authorizes various intelligence-related activities for FY2018-FY2020 and contains other intelligence-related provisions. The bill's provisions include increasing the maximum amount of voluntary separation pay for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employees; providing 12 weeks of paid parental leave for civilian intelligence community employees for the birth or adoption of a child, subject to various limitations; allowing an intelligence community employee who has been subjected to a possible prohibited personnel action to submit a claim to the inspector general of the intelligence community and authorizing the inspector general to convene an external review panel to review the claim; allowing a married, retiring CIA employee to elect to receive a reduced annuity in exchange for the employee's surviving spouse to continue receiving payments after the employee's death; authorizing each intelligence community element to establish higher pay rates for certain positions that require expertise in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics; requiring the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to establish the Supply Chain and Counterintelligence Risk Management Task Force; removing the foreign language requirement for certain senior CIA positions; establishing the Energy Infrastructure Security Center in the Department of Energy; requiring the ODNI to assess security vulnerabilities in state election systems before any regularly scheduled federal election and to brief Congress about detected foreign attempts to influence an upcoming federal election; and requiring reports on various topics, such as Iranian support for proxy forces in Syria and Lebanon and Russian financing for global influence campaigns.

Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020

Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-06-11	Senate	By Senator Burr from Select Committee on Intelligence filed written report. Report No. 116-47. Additional views filed.
2019-05-22	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 97.
2019-05-22	Senate	Select Committee on Intelligence. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Burr. Without written report.

HB690 (Related) 2019-02-07 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
SB174 (Related) 2019-08-16 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 173.
SB245 (Related) 2019-01-28 - Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
SB314 (Related) 2019-01-31 - Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
SB838 (Related) 2019-03-14 - Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
SB1790 (Related) 2019-12-20 - Became Public Law No: 116-92. (TXT | PDF)
HB3476 (Related) 2019-06-25 - Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
HB3678 (Related) 2019-07-10 - Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1589/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s1589/BILLS-116s1589rs.pdf