Bill Text: TX HB1452 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a study regarding cyber attacks on election infrastructure.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-05 - Considered in Calendars [HB1452 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1452-Comm_Sub.html
| 85R21640 GRM-D | |||
| By: Blanco, Lucio III, | H.B. No. 1452 | ||
| Gonzales of Williamson, Capriglione, | |||
| Elkins | |||
| Substitute the following for H.B. | |||
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to a study regarding cyber attacks on election | ||
| infrastructure. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 276, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 276.011 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 276.011. ELECTION CYBER ATTACK STUDY. (a) Not later | ||
| than December 1, 2018, the secretary of state shall: | ||
| (1) conduct a study regarding cyber attacks on | ||
| election infrastructure; | ||
| (2) prepare a public summary report on the study's | ||
| findings that does not contain any information the release of which | ||
| may compromise any election; | ||
| (3) prepare a confidential report on specific findings | ||
| and vulnerabilities that is exempt from disclosure under Chapter | ||
| 552, Government Code; and | ||
| (4) submit a copy of the report required under | ||
| Subdivision (2) and a general compilation of the report required | ||
| under Subdivision (3) that does not contain any information the | ||
| release of which may compromise any election to the standing | ||
| committees of the legislature with jurisdiction over election | ||
| procedures. | ||
| (b) The study must include: | ||
| (1) an investigation of vulnerabilities and risks for | ||
| a cyber attack against a county's voting system machines or the list | ||
| of registered voters; | ||
| (2) information on any attempted cyber attack on a | ||
| county's voting system machines or the list of registered voters; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) recommendations for protecting a county's voting | ||
| system machines and list of registered voters from a cyber attack. | ||
| (c) The secretary of state, using existing resources, may | ||
| contract with a qualified vendor to conduct the study required by | ||
| this section. | ||
| (d) This section expires January 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
