Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
Latest action. By Senator Warner from select committeeA committee created for a specific purpose or period, usually to investigate something, rather than to hold permanent jurisdiction over a subject.Read the full definition (opens a new tab) on Intelligence filed written report. Report No. 118-59. Additional views filed.
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
This bill authorizes various intelligence-related activities for FY2024 and addresses related issues.
For example, the bill
modifies the requirements for a Department of Defense scholarship program for certain individuals pursuing cyber or digital technology degrees to allow scholarship recipients to fulfill their post-graduation employment obligation in the intelligence community;
expands eligibility to receive in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education to members of the intelligence community on active duty for more than 30 days and their spouses and dependent children;
requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to designate a senior official to serve as the intelligence community coordinator for accountability of China's atrocities (i.e., crimes against humanity, genocide, or war crimes);
requires the ODNI to produce a national intelligence estimate on the implications of the ongoing war in Ukraine with respect to a long-term U.S. and NATO confrontation with Russia;
requires the President to establish an office for analysis of global competition to carry out analysis and support policy development related to U.S. leadership in science, technology, and innovation relative to other countries;
requires intelligence community Inspectors General to appoint security officers to provide confidential, security-related guidance to employees and contract employees who intend to make a complaint or provide information to Congress;
defines circumstantial evidence that may be used in determining whether an adverse security clearance or access determination was a reprisal for the lawful disclosure of actions such as mismanagement, waste, abuse, or a violation of federal law;
revises statutory requirements regarding classification and declassification of national security information; and
defines the process whereby certain records of the President or Vice President may be designated as personal records in conjunction with the National Archives and Records Administration.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Reported to Senate" stage on June 22, 2023. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on July 13, 2023: By Senator Warner from Select Committee on Intelligence filed written report. Report No. 118-59. Additional views filed.
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the Senate
- Passage by the House
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 118th Congress (2023-24), 274 of the 16,565 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 1.7 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced it on June 22, 2023. No cosponsors are recorded.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on June 22, 2023, 1176 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 1155 days ago, on July 13, 2023.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 118th Congress has not finished by January 3, 2025 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- SenateIn committee, no floor vote yet
- HouseAwaits Senate passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers