1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safeguarding Elections by Countering Unchallenged Russian Efforts Act or SECURE Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election , produced by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Security Agency and published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on January 6, 2017, found that the following: (A) Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the United States presidential election. (B) Russian operations to influence the 2016 United States presidential election demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations aimed at undermining United States democratic institutions and order. (C) Russia will apply lessons learned from its Putin-ordered campaign aimed at the United States presidential election to future influence efforts worldwide, including against the United States and its allies and their election processes. (2) In July 2018, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Christopher Wray publicly stated, My view has not changed, which is that Russia attempted to interfere with the last election and that it continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. Director Wray also stated that Russia’s malign influence operations represent a threat that we need to take extremely seriously and respond to with fierce determination and focus . (3) In August 2018, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates publicly stated that We continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by Russia to try to weaken and divide the United States. . In December 2018, Director Coates submitted the report of the intelligence community on foreign interference in the 2018 midterm elections, which found that Russia continued to conduct influence activities and messaging campaigns targeted at