Counter SNIPER Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 883 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 883

  To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide candidates 
   with a justification for candidate protection determinations, to 
require Senate confirmation of the Director of the United States Secret 
                    Service, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2025

Mr. Pfluger (for himself and Mr. Guest) 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, to 
require Senate confirmation of the Director of the United States Secret 
                    Service, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Countering Subversion and Negligence 
in Protecting Election Runners Act'' or the ``Counter SNIPER Act''.

SEC. 2. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PROTECTION; SENATE CONFIRMATION OF 
              DIRECTOR.

    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 or Vice 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 candidate failed to meet for such 
purpose.
    ``(2) Any Presidential or Vice 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 or Vice 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.
    ``(i) The United States Secret Service shall be headed by a 
Director, who shall be appointed by the President with the advice and 
consent of the Senate.''.
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