This bill was extremely close to becoming law in 2013 before Snowden. The nice thing that happened in the meantime is we got a stronger law passed in California that applied to all digital service customer information and not just messages.
We think what the Intel Community wants in this bills is a PRISM like program for UK law enforcement and GCHQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-b...