A bill to designate foreign persons who improperly interfere in United States elections as inadmissible aliens, and for other purposes.

United States115th CongressS-2785Senate
Updated: Oct 11, 2018

Summary

Defending Elections against Trolls from Enemy Regimes Act or DETER Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make an alien who is seeking to engage in, or has engaged in, improper interference in a U.S. election inadmissible. Improper interference in a U.S. election is conduct by an alien that: (1) violates federal criminal, voting rights, or campaign finance law, or is under the direction of a foreign government; and (2) interferes with any general or primary federal, state, or local election or caucus, including a candidate's campaign or a ballot measure.

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Timeline

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2487)

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  2. Introduced in Senate

  3. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-378.

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  4. Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

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