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50 U.S.C. § 3123 — Submission of covered documents and classified annexes
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**(a) Covered document defined** In this section, the term “covered document” means any executive order, memorandum, or policy directive issued by the President, including national security Presidential memoranda and Presidential policy directives, or such successor memoranda and directives.
**(b) Requirement** Not later than 7 days after the date on which the President issues or amends a covered document, the President, acting through the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees, the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives the covered document and any classified annex accompanying that document if such covered document or annex contains a direction to, establishes a requirement for, or includes a restriction on any element of the intelligence community.
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**(a) Covered document defined** In this section, the term “covered document” means any executive order, memorandum, or policy directive issued by the President, including national security Presidential memoranda and Presidential policy directives, or such successor memoranda and directives.
**(b) Requirement** Not later than 7 days after the date on which the President issues or amends a covered document, the President, acting through the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees, the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives the covered document and any classified annex accompanying that document if such covered document or annex contains a direction to, establishes a requirement for, or includes a restriction on any element of the intelligence community.
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**(a) Reports** On a biennial basis until the date that is 10 years after March 15, 2022, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees a comprehensive report on the activities, prioritization, and responsibilities of the intelligence community with respect to foreign biological threats emanating from the territory of, or sponsored by, a covered country.
**(b) Matters included** Each report under subsection (a) shall include, with respect to foreign biological threats emanating from the territory of, or sponsored by, a covered country, the following:
(1) A detailed description of all activities relating to such threats undertaken by each element of the intelligence community, and an assessment of any gaps in such activities.
(2) A detailed description of all duties and responsibilities relating to such threats explicitly authorized or otherwise assigned, exclusively or jointly, to each element of the intelligence community, and an assessment of any identified gaps in such duties or responsibilities.
(3) A description of the coordination among the relevant elements of the intelligence community with respect to the activities specified in paragraph (1) and the duties and responsibilities specified in paragraph (2).
(4) An inventory of the strategies, plans, policies, and interagency agreements of the intelligence community relating to the collection, monitoring, analysis, mitigation, and attribution of such threats, and an assessment of any identified gaps therein.
(5) A description of the coordination and interactions among the relevant elements of the intelligence community and non-intelligence community partners.
(6) An assessment of foreign malign influence efforts relating to such threats, including any foreign
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**(a) Notification** Except as provided in subsection (c) and to the extent consistent with due regard for the protection from unauthorized disclosure of classified information relating to sensitive intelligence sources and methods or other exceptionally sensitive matters, the General Counsel of each element of the intelligence community shall notify the congressional intelligence committees, in writing, of any significant legal interpretation of the United States Constitution or Federal law affecting intelligence activities conducted by such element by not later than 30 days after the date of the commencement of any intelligence activity pursuant to such interpretation.
**(b) Content** Each notification under subsection (a) shall provide a summary of the significant legal interpretation and the intelligence activity or activities conducted pursuant to such interpretation.
**(c) Exceptions** A notification under subsection (a) shall not be required for a significant legal interpretation if—
(1) notice of the significant legal interpretation was previously provided to the congressional intelligence committees under subsection (a); or
(2) the significant legal interpretation was made before July 7, 2014.
**(d) Limited access for covert action** If the President determines that it is essential to limit access to a covert action finding under [section 3093(c)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3093/c/2&num=0&edition=prelim), the President may limit access to information concerning such finding that is subject to notification under this section to those members of Congress who have been granted access to the relevant finding under [section 3093(c)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granule
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There is jurisdiction over an offense under [section 3121 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3121&num=0&edition=prelim) committed outside the United States if the individual committing the offense is a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence (as defined in [section 1101(a)(20) of title 8](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1101/a/20&num=0&edition=prelim)).
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 423, comprising former section 603 of the National Security Act of 1947, act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, was editorially reclassified as [section 3123 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3123&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
§ 3122
(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title VI, § 601, as added
Pub. L. 97–200, § 2(a), June 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 122;
amended Pub. L. 106–120, title III, § 304(b), Dec. 3,
1999, 113 Stat. 1611; Pub. L. 111–259, title III,
§ 363(a), Oct. 7, 2010, 124 Stat. 2701.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 421 of this
title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering
as this section.
AMENDMENTS
2010—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–259, § 363(a)(1), sub-
stituted ‘‘15 years’’ for ‘‘ten years’’.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 111–259, § 363(a)(2), substituted ‘‘10
years’’ for ‘‘five years’’.
1999—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–120, § 304(b)(2)(A), sub-
stituted ‘‘shall be fined under title 18’’ for ‘‘shall be
fined not more than $50,000’’.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–120, § 304(b)(2)(B), substituted
‘‘shall be fined under title 18’’ for ‘‘shall be fined not
more than $25,000’’.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–120, § 304(b)(2)(C), substituted
‘‘shall be fined under title 18’’ for ‘‘shall be fined not
more than $15,000’’.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–120, § 304(b)(1), added subsec.
(d).
§ 3122. Defenses and exceptions
(a) Disclosure by United States of identity of cov-
ert agent
It is a defense to a prosecution under section
3121 of this title that before the commission of
the offense with which the defendant is charged,
the United States had publicly acknowledged or
revealed the intelligence relationship to the
United States of the individual the disclosure of
whose intelligence relationship to the United
States is the basis for the prosecution.
(b) Conspiracy, misprision of felony, aiding and
abetting, etc.
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person other
than a person committing an offense under sec-
tion
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