Title: Creating Candidate Capacity to Protect Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Creating Candidate Capacity to Protect Act
This bill provides an exception to limits on campaign expenditures made by the national or state committees of political parties. Specifically, political parties may make expenditures for secure information communications technology or a cybersecurity product or service.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3850 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3850

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exempt assistance 
 provided by political parties to the campaigns of candidates who are 
  affiliated with such parties for secure information communications 
 technology or cybersecurity products or services from the limitations 
     on the amount of coordinated expenditures parties may make in 
    connection with the campaigns of such candidates, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2019

 Mr. Sarbanes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exempt assistance 
 provided by political parties to the campaigns of candidates who are 
  affiliated with such parties for secure information communications 
 technology or cybersecurity products or services from the limitations 
     on the amount of coordinated expenditures parties may make in 
    connection with the campaigns of such candidates, 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 ``Creating Candidate Capacity to 
Protect Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF CYBERSECURITY ASSISTANCE FROM LIMITATIONS ON 
              AMOUNT OF COORDINATED POLITICAL PARTY EXPENDITURES.

    (a) Exemption.--Section 315(d)(5) of the Federal Election Campaign 
Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30116(d)(5)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(5)'' and inserting ``(5)(A)'';
            (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``, or 
        to expenditures (whether provided as funds or provided as in-
        kind services) for secure information communications technology 
        or for a cybersecurity product or service.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
    ``(B) In subparagraph (A)--
            ``(i) the term `secure information communications 
        technology' means a commercial-off-the-shelf computing device 
        which has been configured to restrict unauthorized access and 
        uses publicly available baseline configurations; and
            ``(ii) the term `cybersecurity product or service' means a 
        product or service which helps an organization to achieve the 
        set of standards, guidelines, best practices, methodologies, 
        procedures, and processes to cost-effectively identify, detect, 
        protect, respond to, and recover from cyber risks as developed 
        by the National Institute of Standards and Technology pursuant 
        to subsections (c)(15) and (e) of section 2 of the National 
        Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 272).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to expenditures made on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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