Title: Securing and Heightening the Integrity of our Elections and Lawful Democracy Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Securing and Heightening the Integrity of our Elections and Lawful Democracy Act
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to include among the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) responsibilities relating to intelligence and analysis and infrastructure protection the coordination of cybersecurity efforts between DHS and political campaign committees in order to:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3623 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3623

 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to secure and heighten the 
            integrity of elections, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2017

    Ms. Sewell of Alabama (for herself, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. 
   Ruppersberger, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Clay, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. 
Krishnamoorthi, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Soto, Mr. Evans, Mrs. Dingell, 
and Mr. Beyer) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to secure and heighten the 
            integrity of elections, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Securing and Heightening the 
Integrity of our Elections and Lawful Democracy Act''.

SEC. 2. ELECTION INTEGRITY.

    Subsection (d) of section 201 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 121) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(27)(A) To coordinate cybersecurity efforts between the 
        Department and political campaign committees in order to--
                    ``(i) develop a program to update computer security 
                at political campaign committees;
                    ``(ii) share information on cybersecurity risks 
                with such committees;
                    ``(iii) provide guest lecturer programs in which 
                professional computer security experts instruct 
                campaign professionals on how best to defend against 
                cybersecurity risks; and
                    ``(iv) establish an Election Security Board of 
                Advisors to make recommendations about securing 
                elections against cybersecurity risks.
            ``(B) In this paragraph--
                    ``(i) the term `cybersecurity risk' has the meaning 
                given such term in section 227; and
                    ``(ii) the term `political campaign committee' 
                means--
                            ``(I) a political committee under the 
                        Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 
                        U.S.C. 30101 et seq.), including a political 
                        committee of a national, State, or local 
                        political party; and
                            ``(II) a campaign committee of a candidate 
                        for election for State or local office.''.
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