10 November 1999
Source: Excerpted from Conference Report on HR 1555, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government: http://cryptome.org/hr106-457.txt

SEC. 309. REPORT ON LEGAL STANDARDS APPLIED FOR ELECTRONIC 
                   SURVEILLANCE.

       (a) Report.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Director of Central Intelligence, 
     the Director of the National Security Agency, and the 
     Attorney General shall jointly prepare, and the Director of 
     the National Security Agency shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees, a report in classified and 
     unclassified form providing a detailed analysis of the legal 
     standards employed by elements of the intelligence community 
     in conducting signals intelligence activities, including 
     electronic surveillance.
       (b) Matters Specifically Addressed.--The report shall 
     specifically include a statement of each of the following 
     legal standards:
       (1) The legal standards for interception of communications 
     when such interception may result in the acquisition of 
     information from a communication to or from United States 
     persons.
       (2) The legal standards for intentional targeting of the 
     communications to or from United States persons.
       (3) The legal standards for receipt from non-United States 
     sources of information pertaining to communications to or 
     from United States persons.
       (4) The legal standards for dissemination of information 
     acquired through the interception of the communications to or 
     from United States persons.
       (c) Definitions.--As used in this section:
       (1) The term ``intelligence community'' has the meaning 
     given that term under section 3(4) of the National Security 
     Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)).
       (2) The term ``United States persons'' has the meaning 
     given that term under section 101(i) of the Foreign 
     Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801(i)).
       (3) The term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means 
     the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the 
     Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives 
     and the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on 
     the Judiciary of the Senate.