Sec. 5. Grant program to prevent disclosure of personal information of election workers
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Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall establish a program to provide grants to create or expand programs designed to protect the personally identifiable information of election workers to entities that— are— States or units of local government (as those terms are defined in section 901 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 34 U.S.C. 10251 )); or agencies of States or units of local government; and operate a State or local database or registry that contains personally identifiable information. Each entity described in subsection
(a)that desires a payment under this section shall submit to the Attorney General an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Attorney General may reasonably require. There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to provide grants to entities described in subsection
(a)to create or expand programs designed to protect the personally identifiable information of election workers, including through— the creation of programs to redact or remove the personally identifiable information of election workers, upon request, from public records maintained by State agencies, including by hiring third parties to redact or remove the personally identifiable information of election workers from public records; the expansion of existing programs to protect personally identifiable information of election workers; the development or improvement of protocols, procedures, and policies to prevent the release of personally identifiable information of election workers; the defrayment of costs of modifying or improving existing databases and registries to ensure that personally identifiable information of election workers is protected from release; and the development of confidential opt-out systems that allow election workers to request that personally identifiable information is not included in publicly accessible databases or registries. Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and biennially thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives an annual report that includes a detailed description of the amount spent by States and local governments using funds under this section relating to protection of personally identifiable information of election workers. Not later than 180 days after the date on which a State or local government receives funds under this section, the State or local government shall submit to the Comptroller General a report that, with respect to that State or local government, contains the information described in paragraph
(1)to be included in the report required under that paragraph.
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Grant program to prevent disclosure of personal information of election workers
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