US Congress House Bill 1907 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 40-0)
Status: Introduced on April 5 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-04-25 - 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 2017 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security 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. 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 developed by NIST 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 NIST standards 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 NIST 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 2017

Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]
Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]
Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]
Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]
Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]
Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]	Rep. G. Butterfield [D-NC]	Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Al Green [D-TX]
Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]	Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]	Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]
Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]
Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]	Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-25	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
2017-04-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection.
2017-04-05	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.
2017-04-05	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.
2017-04-05	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.
2017-04-05	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.
2017-04-05	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1907/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1907/BILLS-115hr1907ih.pdf