PATRIOT Oversight Restoration Act of 2003
Official title: A bill to provide greater oversight over the USA PATRIOT Act.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12285)
PATRIOT Oversight Restoration Act of 2003 - Modifies the sunset provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act to provide that provisions concerning the following (with exceptions) will cease to be effective on December 31, 2005: (1) the disclosure of grand jury information to foreign officials; (2) the scope of subpoenas for records of electronic communications; (3) notification of search warrants; (4) pen register or trap and trace orders; (5) single-jurisdiction search warrants; (6) the Government's authority to declare certain persons inadmissible to the United States; (7) the Attorney General's authority to certify that an alien is engaged in activity that endangers national security and to take such alien into custody; (8) law enforcement authority to access telephone, bank, and credit records through the issuance of National Security Letters; (9) privacy protections for educational records and surveys; (10) the definition of "domestic terrorism"; (11) the Government's civil forfeiture authority to go after assets of terrorist organizations; and (12) the definition of "electronic surveillance."
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1695: PATRIOT Oversight Restoration Act of 2003. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-1695/
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