§3371b Information Sharing with State Election Officials

Summary

State means any U.S. State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any U.S. territory or possession. Within 30 days after December 20, 2019, the Director of National Intelligence must help the DHS Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis (and other DHS officials the Secretary names) get security clearances up to the top secret level for each eligible chief election official of a State or the District of Columbia, and for extra eligible designees when needed, as they take office. The Director may also give interim clearances, for a time the Director sets, to a chief election official and up to one designee. The Director must help DHS share appropriate classified information about threats to election systems and election integrity with those cleared officials, and the DHS Under Secretary must work with the Director and the DHS official in charge of critical infrastructure and cybersecurity to make sure the cleared information reaches the affected Secretaries of State or States.