115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1616 

AN ACT 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize 

the National Computer Forensics Institute, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strengthening State 

3 and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act of 2017’’. 

4 SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF THE NATIONAL COMPUTER 

5 FORENSICS INSTITUTE OF THE DEPARTMENT 

6 OF HOMELAND SECURITY. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle C of title VIII of the 

8 Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 381 et seq.) 

9 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 

10 ‘‘SEC. 822. NATIONAL COMPUTER FORENSICS INSTITUTE. 

11 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized for fiscal 

12 years 2017 through 2022 within the United States Secret 

13 Service a National Computer Forensics Institute (in this 

14 section referred to as the ‘Institute’). The Institute shall 

15 disseminate information related to the investigation and 

16 prevention of cyber and electronic crime and related 

17 threats, and educate, train, and equip State, local, tribal, 

18 and territorial law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and 

19 judges. 

20 ‘‘(b) FUNCTIONS.—The functions of the Institute 

21 shall include the following: 

22 ‘‘(1) Educating State, local, tribal, and terri23 torial law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and 

24 judges on current— 

25 ‘‘(A) cyber and electronic crimes and re26 lated threats; 
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1 ‘‘(B) methods for investigating cyber and 

2 electronic crime and related threats and con3 ducting computer and mobile device forensic ex4 aminations; and 

5 ‘‘(C) prosecutorial and judicial challenges 

6 related to cyber and electronic crime and re7 lated threats, and computer and mobile device 

8 forensic examinations. 

9 ‘‘(2) Training State, local, tribal, and territorial 

10 law enforcement officers to— 

11 ‘‘(A) conduct cyber and electronic crime 

12 and related threat investigations; 

13 ‘‘(B) conduct computer and mobile device 

14 forensic examinations; and 

15 ‘‘(C) respond to network intrusion inci16 dents. 

17 ‘‘(3) Training State, local, tribal, and territorial 

18 law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges on 

19 methods to obtain, process, store, and admit digital 

20 evidence in court. 

21 ‘‘(c) PRINCIPLES.—In carrying out the functions 

22 specified in subsection (b), the Institute shall ensure, to 

23 the extent practicable, that timely, actionable, and rel24 evant expertise and information related to cyber and elec25 tronic crime and related threats is shared with State, local, 
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1 tribal, and territorial law enforcement officers and pros2 ecutors. 

3 ‘‘(d) EQUIPMENT.—The Institute may provide State, 

4 local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officers with 

5 computer equipment, hardware, software, manuals, and 

6 tools necessary to conduct cyber and electronic crime and 

7 related threat investigations and computer and mobile de8 vice forensic examinations. 

9 ‘‘(e) ELECTRONIC CRIME TASK FORCES.—The Insti10 tute shall facilitate the expansion of the network of Elec11 tronic Crime Task Forces of the United States Secret 

12 Service through the addition of State, local, tribal, and 

13 territorial law enforcement officers educated and trained 

14 at the Institute. 

15 ‘‘(f) SAVINGS PROVISION.—All authorized activities 

16 and functions carried out by the Institute at any location 

17 as of the day before the date of the enactment of this sec18 tion are authorized to continue to be carried out at any 

19 such location on and after such date.’’. 

20 (b) FUNDING.—For each of fiscal years 2018 

21 through 2022, amounts appropriated for United States 

22 Secret Service, Operations and Support, may be used to 

23 carry out this Act and the amendments made by this Act. 

24 (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

25 in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 
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1 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) is amended by inserting after the item 

2 relating to section 821 the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 822. National Computer Forensics Institute.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives May 16, 2017. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 
115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1616 

AN ACT 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to 

tute, and for other purposes. authorize the National Computer Forensics Insti-