Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Requires an individual or entity proposing to provide or providing specified election services to the State (an election infrastructure vendor) to be approved by the State Board of Elections and to disclose any owners or shareholders with a 5% or greater interest or share in the company. Requires the election infrastructure vendor to report any known or suspected security incidents involving election systems to the local election authority and the Board no later than 10 days after the known or suspected incident. Provides that an election infrastructure vendor that fails to seek approval or fails to report an incident shall be subject to a penalty of not more than $10,000 for the first offense and not more than $20,000 for the second or subsequent offense to be paid to the State Board of Elections. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5473 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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