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At midnight on May 31, 2015, Section 215 expired. [47] With the passage of the USA Freedom Act on June 2, 2015 the expired parts of law, including Section 215, were reported broadly as restored and renewed through 2019. [48] But, the USA Freedom Act did not explicitly state that it was restoring the expired provisions of Section 215. [49]
A look at the post-Sept. 11 surveillance provisions that expired on Monday, June 1, 2015: Section 215 of the Patriot Act This has been used to authorize the National Security Agency's bulk ...
This title has 25 sections, with one of the sections (section 224) containing a sunset clause which sets an expiration date, December 31, 2005, for most of the title's provisions. This was extended twice: on December 22, 2005 the sunset clause expiration date was extended to February 3, 2006 and on February 2 of the same year it was again ...
The bill ultimately passed the Senate 67–32 on June 2, 2015 [67] [68] [69] and reinstated three lapsed authorities i.e. the "Section 215" authority, the "lone wolf" authority and the "roving wiretaps" authority of the Patriot Act, [70] while reforming the "Section 215" authority. President Obama signed the legislation on the sixth day.
The "lone wolf terrorist" provision (Section 207) was a sunset provision that also was to have expired; however, this was enhanced by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. The reauthorization act extended the expiration date to December 31, 2009. [245]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump cannot ignore a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the U.S. by early next year or face a ban ...
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However, on June 15, 2005, they made a second attempt to limit section 215 searches in an amendment to another House appropriations bill [83] and this time it passed with a vote of 238–187 in favor of the Sanders amendment. [84] Not all proposed legislation was against the Patriot Act, however.