[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9072 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9072

  To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide candidates 
     with a justification for candidate protection determinations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2024

  Mr. Pfluger (for himself and Mr. Gimenez) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide candidates 
     with a justification for candidate protection determinations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Counter Secretary Negligence In 
Protecting Election Runners Act'' or the ``Counter SNIPER Act''.

SEC. 2. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PROTECTION.

    Section 3056 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(h)(1) In the case that the Secretary of Homeland Security 
determines that any Presidential candidate requesting a protective 
detail or an increase in assigned protective detail resources is not 
eligible for such detail or increased resources for the purpose of this 
section, the Secretary shall submit to the candidate and the advisory 
committee, within 14 days after such a request is made, a written 
notice of the Secretary's determination, indicating the criteria that 
such candidates failed to meet for such purpose.
    ``(2) Any Presidential candidate may submit to the Secretary of 
Homeland Security a written request to reconsider the determination 
described in paragraph (1), which may include facts to support that the 
criteria specified by the Secretary of Homeland Security have been met 
for the purpose of this section.
    ``(3) Not later than 14 days after a request for reconsideration is 
submitted under paragraph (2), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
review such request and submit to the Presidential candidate a written 
notice of the Secretary's final determination on whether the criteria 
have been met for the purpose of this section, and provide a copy of 
such final determination to the advisory committee.''.
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