§3371a — Title 50 War and National Defense | U.S. Code

Summary

Requires the Director of National Intelligence, working with the heads of the CIA, NSA, FBI, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and other intelligence leaders, to check State election systems for security problems and to assess foreign intelligence threats to federal elections held after December 31, 2018. The review must start no later than 1 year before each regularly scheduled federal election and be finished and reported by 180 days before that election. The report must go to congressional leadership (Senate majority and minority leaders, the Speaker, and the House minority leader) and to the appropriate congressional committees (the congressional intelligence committees, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the House Committee on Homeland Security). The Director must also update the foreign-threat assessment and send that update 90 days before each election. “Security vulnerability” is used as defined in title 6, section 650.

Title 50, §3371a

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(a)In this section:

(1)The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(A)the congressional intelligence committees;

(B)the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and

(C)the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.

(2)The term “congressional leadership” includes the following:

(A)The majority leader of the Senate.

(B)The minority leader of the Senate.

(C)The Speaker of the House of Representatives.

(D)The minority leader of the House of Representatives.

(3)The term “security vulnerability” has the meaning given such term in section 650 of title 6.

(b)The Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of the National Security Agency, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the heads of other relevant elements of the intelligence community, shall—

(1)commence not later than 1 year before any regularly scheduled Federal election occurring after December 31, 2018, and complete not later than 180 days before such election, an assessment of security vulnerabilities of State election systems; and

(2)not later than 180 days before any regularly scheduled Federal election occurring after December 31, 2018, submit a report on such security vulnerabilities and an assessment of foreign intelligence threats to the election to—

(A)congressional leadership; and

(B)the appropriate congressional committees.

(c)Not later than 90 days before any regularly scheduled Federal election occurring after December 31, 2018, the Director of National Intelligence shall—

(1)update the assessment of foreign intelligence threats to that election; and

(2)submit the updated assessment to—

(A)congressional leadership; and

(B)the appropriate congressional committees.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2022—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 117–263 substituted “section 650 of title 6” for “section 1501 of title 6”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definitions For definitions of “congressional intelligence committees” and “intelligence community” as used in this section, see section 5003 of div. E of Pub. L. 116–92, set out as a note under section 3003 of this title.

§3371a Assessment of foreign intelligence threats to Federal elections