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§3112 Annual Reports on the Domestic Activities of the Intelligence Community

Title 50 › Chapter 44— NATIONAL SECURITY › Subchapter III— ACCOUNTABILITY FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES › § 3112

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

By January 31 each year, DNI must send congressional intel committees an unclassified report listing domestic activities in the prior fiscal year and legal basis for each; classified annex may be attached.

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Title 50, §3112

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(a)Not later than January 31 of each year, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees a report—
(1)identifying all domestic activities undertaken by each element of the intelligence community during the prior fiscal year; and
(2)for each activity identified under paragraph (1), a statement of the legal authority authorizing such activity to be undertaken.
(b)Each report under subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

First Report; Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined Pub. L. 117–103, div. X, title V, § 505(c), (d), Mar. 15, 2022, 136 Stat. 989, provided that: “(c) First Report.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Mar. 15, 2022], the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees the first report required under section 513 of the National Security Act of 1947 [50 U.S.C. 3112], as added by subsection (a). “(d) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—In this section, the term ‘appropriate congressional committees’ means—“(1) the congressional intelligence committees; and “(2) the Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies and the Subcommittees on Homeland Security of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate.” [For definition of “congressional intelligence committees” as used in section 505(d) of div. X of Pub. L. 117–103, set out above, see section 2 of div. X of Pub. L. 117–103, set out as a note under section 3003 of this title.]

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50 U.S.C. § 3112

Title 50War and National Defense

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Apr 5, 2026

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