[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
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[H.R. 8463 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8463

To deter foreign interference in United States elections, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 30, 2020

   Mr. Schneider (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Sherman, and Mr. 
    Katko) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on 
  Intelligence (Permanent Select), the Judiciary, Financial Services, 
 Ways and Means, and Rules, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To deter foreign interference in United States elections, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Defending 
Elections from Threats by Establishing Redlines Act of 2020''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
    TITLE I--DETERMINATION OF FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN UNITED STATES 
                               ELECTIONS

Sec. 101. Determination of foreign interference in United States 
                            elections.
Sec. 102. Updated report on oligarchs and parastatal entities of the 
                            Russian Federation.
  TITLE II--DETERRING INTERFERENCE IN UNITED STATES ELECTIONS BY THE 
                           RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Sec. 201. Report on estimated net worth of President Vladimir Putin and 
                            other senior foreign political figures of 
                            the Russian Federation.
Sec. 202. Imposition of sanctions.
Sec. 203. Congressional review of waiver, suspension, and termination 
                            of sanctions.
Sec. 204. Sense of Congress on strategy on coordination with European 
                            Union.
 TITLE III--DETERRING INTERFERENCE IN UNITED STATES ELECTIONS BY OTHER 
                          FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS

Sec. 301. Briefing on interference in United States elections.
Sec. 302. Sense of Congress on deterrence strategies for interference 
                            in United States elections by foreign 
                            governments of concern.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Account; correspondent account; payable-through 
        account.--The terms ``account'', ``correspondent account'', and 
        ``payable-through account'' have the meanings given those terms 
        in section 5318A of title 31, United States Code.
            (2) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
                Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
                Committee on Finance, the Select Committee on 
                Intelligence, and the Committee on Rules and 
                Administration of the Senate; and
                    (B) the Committee on Financial Services, the 
                Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Ways and 
                Means, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 
                and the Committee on House Administration of the House 
                of Representatives.
            (3) Appropriate congressional committees and leadership.--
        The term ``appropriate congressional committees and 
        leadership'' means--
                    (A) the appropriate congressional committees;
                    (B) the majority leader and minority leader of the 
                Senate; and
                    (C) the Speaker, the majority leader, and the 
                minority leader of the House of Representatives.
            (4) Election and campaign infrastructure.--The term 
        ``election and campaign infrastructure'' means information and 
        communications technology and systems used by or on behalf of--
                    (A) the Federal Government or a State or local 
                government in managing the election process, including 
                voter registration databases, voting machines, voting 
                tabulation equipment, equipment for the secure 
                transmission of election results, and other systems; or
                    (B) a principal campaign committee or national 
                committee (as those terms are defined in section 301 of 
                the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 
                30101)) with respect to strategy or tactics affecting 
                the conduct of a political campaign, including 
                electronic communications, and the information stored 
                on, processed by, or transiting such technology and 
                systems.
            (5) Federal election cycle.--The term ``Federal election 
        cycle'' means the period beginning on the day after the date of 
        the most recent election for members of the House of 
        Representatives and ending on the date of the next election for 
        members of the House of Representatives.
            (6) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person'' means a 
        person that is not a United States person.
            (7) Good.--The term ``good'' means any article, natural or 
        manmade substance, material, supply or manufactured product, 
        including inspection and test equipment, and excluding 
        technical data.
            (8) Interference in united states elections.--
                    (A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraph 
                (B), the term ``interference'', with respect to a 
                United States election, means any of the following 
                actions of the government of a foreign country, or any 
                person acting as an agent of or on behalf of such a 
                government, undertaken with the intent to influence the 
                election:
                            (i) Obtaining unauthorized access to 
                        election and campaign infrastructure or related 
                        systems or data and releasing such data or 
                        modifying such infrastructure, systems, or 
                        data.
                            (ii) Unlawfully blocking or degrading 
                        otherwise legitimate and authorized access to 
                        election and campaign infrastructure or related 
                        systems or data.
                            (iii) Significant unlawful contributions or 
                        expenditures for advertising, including on the 
                        internet.
                            (iv) Using social, other internet-based, or 
                        traditional media to spread information to 
                        individuals in the United States without 
                        disclosing that such information is being 
                        disseminated by a foreign government or a 
                        foreign person acting on behalf of a foreign 
                        government.
                    (B) Exceptions.--
                            (i) Exception for publicly identified 
                        statements.--The term ``interference'', with 
                        respect to a United States election, does not 
                        include--
                                    (I) any public statement by a 
                                foreign leader, official, or government 
                                agency with respect to a candidate for 
                                office, official of the United States 
                                Government, or policy of the United 
                                States, if it is clear that the 
                                statement is made by that foreign 
                                leader, government official, or 
                                government agency and no effort has 
                                been made to conceal the individual or 
                                entity making the statement; or
                                    (II) any other statement if a 
                                foreign government is readily and 
                                publicly identifiable as the source of 
                                the statement.
                            (ii) Exception for foreign government 
                        broadcasts.--The term ``interference'', with 
                        respect to a United States election, does not 
                        include the broadcast of views of a foreign 
                        government through broadcast channels owned or 
                        controlled by that government, if that 
                        ownership or control is readily and publicly 
                        identifiable.
            (9) Knowingly.--The term ``knowingly'', with respect to 
        conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means that a person has 
        actual knowledge, or should have known, of the conduct, the 
        circumstance, or the result.
            (10) Person.--The term ``person'' means individual or 
        entity.
            (11) United states election.--The term ``United States 
        election'' means any United States Federal election.
            (12) United states person.--The term ``United States 
        person'' means--
                    (A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully 
                admitted for permanent residence to the United States; 
                or
                    (B) an entity organized under the laws of the 
                United States or of any jurisdiction within the United 
                States, including a foreign branch of such an entity.

    TITLE I--DETERMINATION OF FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN UNITED STATES 
                               ELECTIONS

SEC. 101. DETERMINATION OF FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN UNITED STATES 
              ELECTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after a United States 
election, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with 
the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Director of 
the National Security Agency, the Director of the Central Intelligence 
Agency, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the 
Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall--
            (1) determine with a high level of confidence whether or 
        not the government of a foreign country, or any foreign person 
        acting as an agent of or on behalf of that government, 
        knowingly engaged in interference in the election; and
            (2) submit to the appropriate congressional committees and 
        leadership a report on that determination, including, if the 
        Director determines that interference did occur--
                    (A) an identification of the government or foreign 
                person that engaged in such interference; and
                    (B) if the Government of the Russian Federation, or 
                any foreign person acting as an agent of or on behalf 
                of that Government, engaged in such interference, a 
                list of any senior foreign political figures or 
                oligarchs in the Russian Federation identified under 
                section 241(a)(1)(A) of the Countering Russian 
                Influence in Europe and Eurasia Act of 2017 (title II 
                of Public Law 115-44; 131 Stat. 922) who directly or 
                indirectly contributed to such interference.
    (b) Additional Reporting.--If the Director of National Intelligence 
determines and reports under subsection (a) that neither the government 
of a foreign country nor any foreign person acting as an agent of or on 
behalf of that government knowingly engaged in interference in a United 
States election, and the Director subsequently determines that that 
government, or such a foreign person, did engage in such interference, 
the Director shall, not later than 60 days after making that 
determination, submit to the appropriate congressional committees and 
leadership--
            (1) a report on the subsequent determination; and
            (2) if the Director determines that the Government of the 
        Russian Federation, or any foreign person acting as an agent of 
        or on behalf of that Government, engaged in such interference, 
        a list of any senior foreign political figures or oligarchs in 
        the Russian Federation identified under section 241(a)(1)(A) of 
        the Countering Russian Influence in Europe and Eurasia Act of 
        2017 (title II of Public Law 115-44; 131 Stat. 922) who 
        directly or indirectly contributed to such interference.
    (c) Form of Report.--Each report required by subsection (a) or (b) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified 
annex.

SEC. 102. UPDATED REPORT ON OLIGARCHS AND PARASTATAL ENTITIES OF THE 
              RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

    Section 241 of the Countering America's Adversaries Through 
Sanctions Act (Public Law 115-44; 131 Stat. 922) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections 
        (c) and (d), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Updated Report.--Not later than one year after the date of 
the enactment of the Defending Elections from Threats by Establishing 
Redlines Act of 2020, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of the 
Treasury, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence 
and the Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees an updated report on oligarchs and parastatal 
entities of the Russian Federation that builds on the report submitted 
under subsection (a) on January 29, 2018, and that includes the matters 
described in paragraphs (1) through (5) of subsection (a).''; and
            (3) in subsection (c), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by 
        striking ``The report required under subsection (a)'' and 
        inserting ``The reports required by subsections (a) and (b)''.

  TITLE II--DETERRING INTERFERENCE IN UNITED STATES ELECTIONS BY THE 
                           RUSSIAN FEDERATION

SEC. 201. REPORT ON ESTIMATED NET WORTH OF PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN AND 
              OTHER SENIOR FOREIGN POLITICAL FIGURES OF THE RUSSIAN 
              FEDERATION.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than biannually 
thereafter, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report that contains--
            (1) the estimated total net worth of each individual 
        described in subsection (b); and
            (2) a description of how the funds of each such individual 
        were acquired and how such funds have been used or employed.
    (b) Individuals Described.--The individuals described in this 
subsection are the following:
            (1) President Vladimir Putin.
            (2) Any other senior foreign political figure of the 
        Russian Federation identified in the report under subsection 
        (a)(1)(A) of section 241 of the Countering Russian Influence in 
        Europe and Eurasia Act of 2017 (title II of Public Law 115-44; 
        131 Stat. 922), or any update to that report under subsection 
        (b) of such section, as added by section 103.
    (c) Form of Report; Public Availability.--
            (1) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall 
        be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified 
        annex.
            (2) Public availability.--The unclassified portion of the 
        report required under subsection (a) shall be made available to 
        the public in precompressed, easily downloadable versions that 
        are made available in all appropriate formats.
    (d) Sources of Information.--In preparing the report required under 
subsection (a), the President may use any credible publication, 
database, or web-based resource, and any credible information compiled 
by any government agency, nongovernmental organization, or other entity 
provided to or made available to the President.
    (e) Funds Defined.--In this section, the term ``funds'' means--
            (1) cash;
            (2) equity;
            (3) any other intangible asset the value of which is 
        derived from a contractual claim, including bank deposits, 
        bonds, stocks, a security (as defined in section 2(a) of the 
        Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77b(a))), or a security or an 
        equity security (as those terms are defined in section 3(a) of 
        the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a))); and
            (4) anything else of value that the Secretary of the 
        Treasury determines to be appropriate.

SEC. 202. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.

    (a) In General.--If the Director of National Intelligence 
determines under section 101 that the Government of the Russian 
Federation, or any foreign person acting as an agent of or on behalf of 
that Government, knowingly engaged in interference in a United States 
election, the President shall, not later than 30 days after such 
determination is made, impose the following sanctions:
            (1) Blocking the assets of certain state-owned russian 
        financial institutions and restricting accounts.--
                    (A) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury 
                shall impose one or more of the following sanctions on 
                2 or more entities specified in subparagraph (B):
                            (i) Pursuant to the International Emergency 
                        Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), 
                        blocking and prohibiting all transactions in 
                        all property and interests in property of the 
                        entity if such property and interests in 
                        property are in the United States, come within 
                        the United States, or are or come within the 
                        possession or control of a United States 
                        person.
                            (ii) Prohibiting, or imposing strict 
                        conditions on, the opening or maintaining in 
                        the United States of a correspondent account or 
                        payable-through account by the entity.
                    (B) Entities specified.--The entities specified in 
                this subparagraph are the following:
                            (i) Sberbank.
                            (ii) VTB Bank.
                            (iii) Gazprombank.
                            (iv) Vnesheconombank.
                            (v) Rosselkhozbank.
            (2) Prohibition on new investments in energy sector of 
        russia.--
                    (A) Prohibition.--The President shall prohibit any 
                new investment made in the United States or by a United 
                States person in the energy sector of the Russian 
                Federation or an energy company of the Russian 
                Federation.
                    (B) Sanctions.--The President shall, pursuant to 
                the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
                U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), block and prohibit all 
                transactions in all property and interests in property 
                of any foreign person that makes a new investment in 
                the energy sector of the Russian Federation or an 
                energy company of the Russian Federation if such 
                property and interests in property are in the United 
                States, come within the United States, or are or come 
                within the possession or control of a United States 
                person.
                    (C) New investment defined.--Not later than 60 days 
                after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
                President shall prescribe regulations to define, for 
                purposes of this paragraph, the term ``new investment'' 
                in a manner that--
                            (i) includes significant upgrades or 
                        expansions to projects and construction 
                        underway as of the date of the enactment of 
                        this Act; and
                            (ii) does not include routine maintenance 
                        of such projects and construction.
            (3) Blocking the assets of entities in russian defense and 
        intelligence sectors.--
                    (A) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury 
                shall, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic 
                Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), block and prohibit 
                all transactions in all property and interests in 
                property of any entity described in subparagraph (B) if 
                such property and interests in property are in the 
                United States, come within the United States, or are or 
                come within the possession or control of a United 
                States person.
                    (B) Entities described.--An entity described in 
                this subparagraph is--
                            (i) an entity that the President determines 
                        pursuant to section 231 of the Countering 
                        Russian Influence in Europe and Eurasia Act of 
                        2017 (22 U.S.C. 9525) is part of, or operates 
                        for or on behalf of, the defense or 
                        intelligence sectors of the Government of the 
                        Russian Federation; or
                            (ii) an entity in which an entity described 
                        in clause (i) has an ownership interest of 50 
                        percent or more.
            (4) Prohibition on transactions involving certain russian 
        debt.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall, pursuant to such 
        regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, prohibit all 
        transactions within the United States or by a United States 
        person, in--
                    (A) sovereign debt of the Government of the Russian 
                Federation issued on or after the date of the enactment 
                of this Act, including governmental bonds; and
                    (B) debt of any entity owned or controlled by the 
                Russian Federation issued on or after such date of 
                enactment, including bonds.
            (5) Blocking the assets of senior political figures and 
        oligarchs and exclusion from the united states.--
                    (A) In general.--The President shall impose with 
                respect to any senior foreign political figure or 
                oligarch in the Russian Federation identified under 
                subsection (a)(2)(B) or (b)(2) of section 101 the 
                following sanctions:
                            (i) Pursuant to the International Emergency 
                        Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), 
                        the President shall block and prohibit all 
                        transactions in all property and interests in 
                        property of the individual if such property and 
                        interests in property are in the United States, 
                        come within the United States, or are or come 
                        within the possession or control of a United 
                        States person.
                            (ii) The President shall deny a visa to, 
                        and exclude from the United States, the 
                        individual, and revoke in accordance with 
                        section 221(i) of the Immigration and 
                        Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)) any visa or 
                        other documentation of the individual.
                    (B) Public availability of information.--
                Information about the denial or revocation of a visa or 
                other documentation under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall be 
                made available to the public.
    (b) Report to Congress.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
        President shall submit to the committees specified in paragraph 
        (2) a report identifying the 5 largest financial institutions 
        owned or controlled by the Government of the Russian 
        Federation, determined by estimated net assets.
            (2) Committees specified.--The committees specified in this 
        paragraph are--
                    (A) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
                Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
                Senate; and
                    (B) the Committee on Financial Services and the 
                Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
                Representatives.
    (c) Exceptions.--
            (1) Importation of goods.--The requirement to impose 
        sanctions under subsection (a) shall not include the authority 
        to impose sanctions with respect to the importation of goods.
            (2) Compliance with united nations headquarters 
        agreement.--Subsection (a)(5)(A)(ii) shall not apply with 
        respect to the admission of an alien to the United States if 
        such admission is necessary to comply with United States 
        obligations under the Agreement between the United Nations and 
        the United States of America regarding the Headquarters of the 
        United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and 
        entered into force November 21, 1947, under the Convention on 
        Consular Relations, done at Vienna April 24, 1963, and entered 
        into force March 19, 1967, or under other international 
        agreements.
            (3) Activities of nasa.--The requirement to impose 
        sanctions under subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to 
        activities of the National Aeronautics and Space 
        Administration.
    (d) Implementation; Penalties.--
            (1) Implementation.--The President may exercise all 
        authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 of the 
        International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 
        1704) to carry out this section.
            (2) Penalties.--A person that violates, attempts to 
        violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of this 
        section or any regulation, license, or order issued to carry 
        out this section shall be subject to the penalties set forth in 
        subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International 
        Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same 
        extent as a person that commits an unlawful act described in 
        subsection (a) of that section.
    (e) Extension of Period To Allow Cessation of Prohibited 
Business.--The President may extend the 30-day period specified in 
subsection (a), except with respect to sanctions under paragraph (5) of 
that subsection, for an additional period not to exceed 180 days if the 
President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that 
the extension--
            (1) is in the national security interest of the United 
        States; and
            (2) is necessary to enable non-Russian persons impacted by 
        sanctions under subsection (a) to wind down business prohibited 
        as a result of those sanctions.
    (f) National Security Waiver.--The President may waive the 
application of sanctions under subsection (a) with respect to a person, 
except sanctions under paragraph (5) of that subsection, if the 
President submits to the appropriate congressional committees a 
determination in writing that--
            (1) the waiver is in the vital national security interest 
        of the United States; and
            (2) failing to use the waiver will cause significant 
        adverse harm to the vital national security interests of the 
        United States.
    (g) Suspension.--
            (1) In general.--The President may suspend sanctions 
        imposed under subsection (a) on or after the date on which the 
        Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the 
        Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Director 
        of the National Security Agency, the Director of the Central 
        Intelligence Agency, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of 
        the Treasury, and the Attorney General, submits to the 
        appropriate congressional committees and leadership a 
        certification that the Government of the Russian Federation has 
        not engaged in interference in United States elections for at 
        least one Federal election cycle.
            (2) Reimposition.--
                    (A) Reports required.--Not later than 90 days after 
                a suspension of sanctions under paragraph (1) takes 
                effect, and every 90 days thereafter, the President 
                shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
                committees and leadership a report on whether the 
                Government of the Russian Federation is taking measures 
                to--
                            (i) improve the oversight of and 
                        prosecutions relating to interference in United 
                        States elections; and
                            (ii) credibly demonstrate a significant 
                        change in behavior and credibly commit to not 
                        engaging in such interference in the future.
                    (B) Reimposition.--If the President determines 
                under subparagraph (A) that the Government of the 
                Russian Federation is not taking measures described in 
                that subparagraph, the President shall reimpose the 
                sanctions suspended under paragraph (1).
    (h) Termination.--The President may terminate sanctions imposed 
under subsection (a) on or after the date on which the Director of 
National Intelligence, in consultation with the Director of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, the Director of the National Security Agency, 
the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secretary of 
State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General, submits 
to the appropriate congressional committees and leadership a 
certification that--
            (1) the Government of the Russian Federation has not 
        engaged in interference in United States elections for at least 
        2 Federal election cycles; and
            (2) the President has received credible commitments from 
        the Government of the Russian Federation that that Government 
        will not engage in such interference in the future.

SEC. 203. CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF WAIVER, SUSPENSION, AND TERMINATION 
              OF SANCTIONS.

    Section 216(a)(2) of the Countering America's Adversaries Through 
Sanctions Act (22 U.S.C. 9511(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)(i), by inserting ``or suspend the 
        application of sanctions described in subparagraph (B)(i)(IV)'' 
        after ``subparagraph (B)''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B)(i)--
                    (A) in subclause (II), by striking ``; or'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in subclause (III), by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(IV) section 202 of the Defending 
                                Elections from Threats by Establishing 
                                Redlines Act of 2020; and''.

SEC. 204. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON STRATEGY ON COORDINATION WITH EUROPEAN 
              UNION.

    It is the sense of Congress that, not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the President should submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees and leadership a strategy on how 
the United States will--
            (1) work in concert with the European Union and member 
        countries of the European Union to deter interference by the 
        Government of the Russian Federation in elections; and
            (2) coordinate with the European Union and member countries 
        of the European Union to enact legislation similar to this Act.

 TITLE III--DETERRING INTERFERENCE IN UNITED STATES ELECTIONS BY OTHER 
                          FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS

SEC. 301. BRIEFING ON INTERFERENCE IN UNITED STATES ELECTIONS.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
and every 90 days thereafter, the President, or a designee of the 
President, shall brief the appropriate congressional committees and 
leadership on any government of a foreign country, or person acting as 
an agent of or on behalf of that government, that is determined by the 
President to have engaged in or to be likely to engage in interference 
in a United States election.

SEC. 302. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON DETERRENCE STRATEGIES FOR INTERFERENCE 
              IN UNITED STATES ELECTIONS BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS OF 
              CONCERN.

    It is the sense of Congress that, not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the President should submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees and leadership a report that 
includes--
            (1) a strategy of the President to deter interference in a 
        United States election by the Government of the People's 
        Republic of China, the Government of the Democratic People's 
        Republic of Korea, the Government of the Islamic Republic of 
        Iran, and any other foreign government determined by the 
        President to have engaged in or to be likely to engage in 
        interference in a United States election, including any person 
        acting as an agent of or on behalf of such a government;
            (2) proposed sanctions if that government engages in such 
        interference and any authorities the President may require from 
        Congress to impose such sanctions;
            (3) other actions undertaken by Federal agencies or in 
        cooperation with other countries to deter such interference; 
        and
            (4) a plan for communicating such deterrence actions to 
        those governments.
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