Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act of 2017

H.R. 1907 · 115th Congress · Apr 5, 2017 · Lineage

A BILL

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct research and development to mitigate the consequences of threats to voting systems, to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require the voting systems used in elections for Federal office to comply with national standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology for operational security and ballot verification, to establish programs to promote research in innovative voting system technologies, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

(a)

Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act of 2017”.

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Table of contents— The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

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Apr 5, 2017viewing Introduced in House Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Rush, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Norton, Ms. Lee, Mr. Hastings, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Slaughter, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Richmond, Ms. Fudge, Ms. Bass, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Ms. Maxine Waters of California, Mr. Norcross, Mr. McNerney, Mr. Payne, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Ms. Eshoo, and Mr. Smith of Washington) introduced the following bill; which was 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

Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act of 2017

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

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