1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Declassification Reform Act of 2020 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) In his August 16, 2019, letter to the President, the director of the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) wrote the following: Today, the Government creates electronic petabytes of classified and controlled unclassified data each month, a deluge that we expect will continue to grow unabated . (2) The director of the Office has identified problems in the declassification system for years, writing in his August 16, 2019, letter, In my last annual report to you, I emphasized that users of this system inside and outside the Government rightly observe that its current framework is unsustainable and desperately requires modernization. The investment, adoption, and use of advanced technologies lie at the core of this transformation, but we also need new policies and practices that reflect and support the way the Government actually operates in the 21st century . (3) The director of the Office wrote in his August 16, 2019, letter the following: The Government has not invested in the technologies needed to support electronic information management and information security . (4) In its June 2016 report, the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) wrote the following: [n]early all users of the security classification system agree that it is no longer able to handle the current volume and forms of information, especially given the exponential growth of digital information . (5) In its June 2016 report, the Board wrote the following: [a]s the PIDB has previously noted in all of our reports, we reaffirm that our most important recommendation for developing and ensuring such a system is the adoption of a government-wide technology investment strategy for the management of classified information. . 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Classification The term classification means the act or process by which information is determined to be classified information. (2) Classified national