Creating Candidate Capacity to Protect Act

I 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 3850 To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exempt assistance provided by political parties to the campaigns of candidates who are affiliated with such parties for secure information communications tech- nology or cybersecurity products or services from the limitations on the amount of coordinated expenditures parties may make in connection with the campaigns of such candidates, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JULY 18, 2019 Mr. SARBANES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration A BILL To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exempt assistance provided by political parties to the campaigns of candidates who are affiliated with such parties for secure information communications technology or cybersecurity products or services from the limitations on the amount of coordinated expenditures parties may make in connection with the campaigns of such can- didates, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:00 Jul 30, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H3850.IH H3850 dlhill on DSKBBY8HB2PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 3850 IH SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Creating Candidate 2 Capacity to Protect Act’’. 3 SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF CYBERSECURITY ASSISTANCE 4 FROM LIMITATIONS ON AMOUNT OF COORDI- 5 NATED POLITICAL PARTY EXPENDITURES. 6 (a) EXEMPTION.—Section 315(d)(5) of the Federal 7 Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30116(d)(5)) 8 is amended— 9 (1) by striking ‘‘(5)’’ and inserting ‘‘(5)(A)’’; 10 (2) by striking the period at the end and insert- 11 ing ‘‘, or to expenditures (whether provided as funds 12 or provided as in-kind services) for secure informa- 13 tion communications technology or for a cybersecu- 14 rity product or service.’’; and 15 (3) by adding at the end the following new sub- 16 paragraph: 17 ‘‘(B) In subparagraph (A)— 18 ‘‘(i) the term ‘secure information communica- 19 tions technology’ means a commercial-off-the-shelf 20 computing device which has been configured to re- 21 strict unauthorized access and uses publicly available 22 baseline configurations; and 23 ‘‘(ii) the term ‘cybersecurity product or service’ 24 means a product or service which helps an organiza- 25 tion to achieve the set of standards, guidelines, best 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:00 Jul 30, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H3850.IH H3850 dlhill on DSKBBY8HB2PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 3850 IH practices, methodologies, procedures, and processes 1 to cost-effectively identify, detect, protect, respond 2 to, and recover from cyber risks as developed by the 3 National Institute of Standards and Technology pur- 4 suant to subsections (c)(15) and (e) of section 2 of 5 the National Institute of Standards and Technology 6 Act (15 U.S.C. 272).’’. 7 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 8 subsection (a) shall apply with respect to expenditures 9 made on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 10 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:00 Jul 30, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H3850.IH H3850 dlhill on DSKBBY8HB2PROD with BILLS