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U.S. news outlets have reported that the Obama administration will propose new legislation that will ban the National Security Agency from the collection and storing of massive amounts of Americans' phone records.

Under the proposal, the government will have to obtain permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain data from phone companies on calls connected to suspected terrorists. The phone companies will be required to provide the NSA with updated information if any new phone calls are made to or from that number.

Phone companies would not be required to maintain the phone call records for any longer than they do now.

President Barack Obama launched a review of the NSA's phone surveillance program after former contractor Edward Snowden leaked details of the program to the British newspaper The Guardian last year, setting off a political firestorm over civil liberties. Obama ordered his administration to craft a new policy by this Friday, when the current authorization for the program expires.

Legislation similar to Obama's proposal will be introduced Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill, crafted by the Republican chairman and ranking Democrat of the House Intelligence Committee, also bars the NSA from the bulk collection of phone records, but does not require the government to obtain a court order before it asks phone companies for the data.