3.0.0 2035 2023-01-11T13:38:13Z 2023-01-11T13:38:13Z Senate S 2017-10-31 115 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-10-31T15:57:30Z 2017-10-31 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. IntroReferral 2017-10-31 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001046 Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] Martin Heinrich D NM T. N C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2017-10-31 True Government Operations and Politics Government Operations and Politics 00 2017-10-31 Introduced in Senate 2019-08-22T14:12:36Z Securing America's Voting Equipment Act of 2017 or the SAVE Act

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to (1) designate voting systems as critical infrastructure and include threats to such systems in national planning scenarios, (2) conduct a threat assessment of voting systems and develop best practices to address such threats, (3) establish a program to award grants to states to implement such best practices, and (4) establish a hacking contest and bug bounty program directed at finding voting-system vulnerabilities.

The bill also directs (1) the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to establish a program for sharing classified information about voting-system threats with state election officials, and (2) the Government Accountability Office to conduct periodic voting-system audits.

]]> SAVE Act Display Title SAVE Act Short Titles as Introduced SAVE Act Short Titles as Introduced Securing America's Voting Equipment Act of 2017 Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide increased security for the voting systems of the United States, to protect against intrusion, theft, manipulation, and deletion of voter registration data and ballots, or votes cast, and to prevent cyberattacks from malicious computer hackers, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2035is/xml/BILLS-115s2035is.xml 2017-10-31 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.