50 U.S.C. § 1881
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United States · Title 50 — WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE · Status: effective
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- 50 U.S.C. § 1881, Definitions, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/491994
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In this subchapter, the terms “agent of a foreign power”, “Attorney General”, “contents”, “electronic surveillance”, “foreign intelligence information”, “foreign power”, “person”, “United States”, and “United States person” have the meanings given such terms in section 1801 of this title, except as specifically provided in this subchapter.
In this subchapter:
The term “congressional intelligence committees” means—
The terms “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court” and “Court” mean the court established under section 1803(a) of this title.
The terms “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review” and “Court of Review” mean the court established under section 1803(b) of this title.
The term “electronic communication service provider” means—
any other service provider who has access to equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store wire or electronic communications, but not including any entity that serves primarily as—
The term “intelligence community” has the meaning given the term in section 3003(4) of this title.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- FISA Amendments Act of 2008
- FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017House: 256–164Senate: no recorded tally
- Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act