Voting System Cybersecurity Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1454
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2019-05-14
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies

Computer security and identity theft

Department of Homeland Security

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Latest action: action_date: 2019-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-05-14
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p> <strong>Voting System Cybersecurity Act of 2019</strong></p> <p>This bill adds to the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee a representative of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who has operational expertise in cybersecurity.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1454 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 14, 2019 Mr. Peters (for himself, Mr. Lankford , Ms. Klobuchar , and Mr. Johnson ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration A BILL To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to add a representative of the Department of Homeland Security from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on the Technical Guidelines Development Committee.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Voting System Cybersecurity Act of 2019 . 2. Addition of representative of Department of Homeland Security from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Technical Guidelines Development Committee Section 221(c)(1) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ( 52 U.S.C. 20961(c)(1) ) is amended— (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 14 and inserting 15 ; (2) by redesignating subparagraph (E) as subparagraph (F); and (3) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following new subparagraph: (E) A representative of the Department of Homeland Security from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who has operational expertise in cybersecurity. .