; and (2) $175,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2026, 2028, 2030, and 2032. (b) Continuing availability of amounts Any amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of this section shall remain available until expended. . (2) Clerical amendment The table of contents of such Act, as amended by section 1402(c), is amended by adding at the end of the items relating to subtitle D of title II the following: Part 8—Grants for Obtaining Compliant Paper Ballot Voting Systems and Carrying Out Voting System Security Improvements Sec. 298. Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and carrying out voting system security improvements. Sec. 298A. Voting system security improvements described. Sec. 298B. Eligibility of States. Sec. 298C. Reports to Congress. Sec. 298D. Authorization of appropriations. (b) Qualified election infrastructure vendors (1) In general The Secretary, in consultation with the Chair, shall establish and publish criteria for qualified election infrastructure vendors for purposes of section 298A of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (as added by this Act). (2) Criteria The criteria established under paragraph (1) shall include each of the following requirements: (A) The vendor shall— (i) be owned and controlled by a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or a member of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance