registration information for commercial or nongovernmental purposes Voter registration information collected under this subtitle shall not be used for commercial purposes including for comparison with any existing commercial list or database. (k) Penalty Whoever knowingly uses information or permits information to be used in violation of this section shall be imprisoned for not more than 1 year, fined under title 18, United States Code, or both. (l) Exclusion from lists of individuals declining registration The chief State election official of a State shall ensure that, with respect to any individual who declines the opportunity to register to vote under section 111, the individual’s information is not included on the computerized Statewide voter registration list under section 303 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and is not provided to any third party (except to the extent required under other law). Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to preclude an individual who has previously declined the opportunity to register to vote from subsequently registering to vote. (m) Assistance to States for carrying out list security, maintenance, and privacy requirements (1) Authorization of funding Section 257(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ( 52 U.S.C. 21007(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (5) For fiscal year 2018, such sums as may be necessary for such payments, except that a State may use a requirement payment made with funds authorized under this paragraph solely to upgrade the security of the State’s voter registration lists and voter registration processes and to carry out other activities necessary to meet the requirements of section 303(a)(3) (relating to the technological security of the State’s computerized voter registration list) and the requirements of the Voter Registration Modernization Act of 2017. . (2) Waiver of 5 percent match requirement Section 253(b)(5) of such Act ( 52 U.S.C. 21003(b)(5) ) is amended— (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking