John Sarbanes

“ ELECTION SECURITY BUG BOUNTY PROGRAM. (a) Establishment.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish a program to be known as the “Election Security Bug Bounty Program” (in this subtitle referred to as the “Program”) to improve the cybersecurity of the systems used to administer elections for Federal office by facilitating and encouraging assessments by independent technical experts, in cooperation with State and local election officials and election service providers, to identify and report election cybersecurity vulnerabilities. ”

“ The term “State” means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. (11) The term “voting system” has the meaning given such term in section 301 (b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21081 (b) ) . ”