US Congress House Bill 6073 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-0)
Status: Introduced on September 20 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-09-30 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Research and Technology Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act of 2016 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) designate voting systems used in the United States as critical infrastructure; (2) include threats of compromise, disruption, or destruction of voting systems in national planning scenarios; and (3) conduct a campaign to proactively educate local election officials about the designation of voting systems as critical infrastructure and election officials at all levels of government of voting system threats. In furtherance of local election official preparedness and response, DHS shall conduct research and development to mitigate the consequences of voting systems threats. DHS shall prepare and submit to Congress a comprehensive plan to protect and prepare the critical infrastructure of the voting systems used in the United States against threats, including from acts of terrorism. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shall develop standards for ensuring the operational security of the voting systems used in elections for federal office. This bill amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a state, in operating the voting system, to comply with applicable standards for ensuring the operational security of voting systems. The testing and certification of voting systems hardware and software shall test whether voting systems are in compliance with applicable standards developed by NIST for ensuring the operational security of voting systems. NIST shall develop standards for ensuring that the process by which ballots are counted in elections for federal office is transparent and permits voters to verify that votes in such elections are counted correctly. States shall comply with applicable standards, in operating the voting system, for ensuring that the process by which ballots are counted in elections for federal office is transparent and permits voters to verify that votes in such elections are counted correctly. The National Science Foundation shall establish an election technology innovation research and development program.

Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act of 2016

Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]
Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]
Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]
Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. G. Butterfield [D-NC]
Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Al Green [D-TX]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]
Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]
Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]	Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-09-30	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
2016-09-20	House	Referred to House Homeland Security
2016-09-20	House	Referred to House Science, Space, and Technology
2016-09-20	House	Referred to House Administration
2016-09-20	House	Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and 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.
2016-09-20	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/6073/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr6073/BILLS-114hr6073ih.pdf