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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1997 

To encourage United States-Ukraine cybersecurity cooperation and require 

a report regarding such cooperation, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 6, 2017 

Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 

Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

To encourage United States-Ukraine cybersecurity cooperation and require a report regarding such cooperation, 

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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ukraine Cybersecurity 

5 Cooperation Act of 2017’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds the following: 


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1 (1) The United States established diplomatic 

2 relations with Ukraine in 1992, following its inde3 pendence from the Soviet Union. 

4 (2) The United States attaches great impor5 tance to the success of Ukraine’s transition to a 

6 modern democratic country with a flourishing mar7 ket economy. 

8 (3) In 2014, days before the Presidential elec9 tion in Ukraine, there took place a failed attempt to 

10 destroy the election system software through a cyber 

11 attack. 

12 (4) In December 2015, Ukrainian power com13 panies experienced unscheduled power outages im14 pacting a large number of customers in Ukraine 

15 from a cyber attack. 

16 (5) In response to cyber attacks in Ukraine, 

17 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko emphasized 

18 the need for a National Cyber Security System de19 claring that cyberspace has turned into another bat20 tlefield 101 for State independence. 

21 (6) As a result of the December 2015 

22 cyberattack, the United States sent interagency 

23 teams that included representatives from the De24 partment of Energy, the Federal Bureau of Inves25 tigation, and the North American Electric Reliability 


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1 Corporation to Ukraine to look into the safety of 

2 their infrastructure and to help with investigations. 

3 The visit was followed up by another interagency 

4 delegation to Ukraine in March 2016, and a May 

5 2016 United States-Ukrainian tabletop exercise on 

6 mitigating attacks against Ukraine’s infrastructure. 

7 (7) As noted by former Deputy Secretary of 

8 Commerce, Bruce Andrews, ‘‘Cybersecurity is a per9 fect example of a sector in which we can work to10 gether to increase national and economic security, 

11 create jobs, and provide mutual prosperity for both 

12 our economies. Together I am confident that we can 

13 provide leadership to enhance cybersecurity capabili14 ties across Central and Southeast Europe.’’. 

15 SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 

16 It is the policy of the United States to— 

17 (1) reaffirm the commitment of the United 

18 States to the United States-Ukraine Charter on 

19 Strategic Partnership, which highlights the impor20 tance of the bilateral relationship and outlines en21 hanced cooperation in the areas of defense, security, 

22 economics and trade, energy security, democracy, 

23 and cultural exchanges; 


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1 (2) reaffirm the commitment of the United 

2 States to support cooperation between the North At3 lantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Ukraine; 

4 (3) reaffirm the commitment of the United 

5 States to provide financial, economic, and technical 

6 assistance to Ukraine to achieve its goals for the 

7 Ukrainian Government to make progress on reforms 

8 and anticorruption initiatives; 

9 (4) reaffirm the commitment of the United 

10 States to the Budapest Memorandum on security as11 surances; and 

12 (5) assist the Ukrainian Government to improve 

13 its cybersecurity strategy. 

14 SEC. 4. UNITED STATES ACTIONS TO ASSIST UKRAINE TO 

15 IMPROVE ITS CYBERSECURITY AND PROTECT 

16 AMERICAN INTERESTS. 

17 (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con18 gress that the Secretary of State should take the following 

19 actions, commensurate with United States interests, to as20 sist Ukraine to improve its cybersecurity: 

21 (1) Provide Ukraine such support as may be 

22 necessary to increase most advanced security protec23 tion on government computers, particularly such sys24 tems that defend the critical infrastructure of 

25 Ukraine. 


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1 (2) Provide Ukraine support in reducing reli2 ance on Russian technology. 

3 (3) Assist Ukraine to build capacity, expand cy4 bersecurity information sharing, and cooperate in 

5 international response efforts. 

6 (b) REPORT ON UKRAINE’S CYBERSECURITY.—Not 

7 later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 

8 this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Com9 mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 

10 and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 

11 a report on the status of United States cybersecurity co12 operation with Ukraine to seek new areas for collaboration 

13 and assistance, as well as pursue cooperation with regional 

14 partners and organizations to address shared cyber chal15 lenges. Such report shall also include information relating 

16 to the following: 

17 (1) An update on the U.S. Department of En18 ergy’s efforts to establish a United States-Ukraine 

19 Stakeholder Working Group as an element of their 

20 work with Ukraine to develop a Ukrainian Cyber Se21 curity Program. 

22 (2) An assessment capability to establish joint 

23 United States and Ukrainian participation to— 

24 (A) conduct cybersecurity assessments of 

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1 ical infrastructure, and banking systems in 

2 order to identify critical vulnerabilities; 

3 (B) recommend mitigation strategies relat4 ing to such assessments; 

5 (C) combat cybercrime, including through 

6 training workshops and joint tabletop exercises 

7 covering priority cybersecurity scenarios; and 

8 (D) establish an information security 

9 awareness program. 

10 (3) An update of progress on NATO’s agree11 ment to establish an Incident Management Center to 

12 monitor cyber security events and laboratories to in13 vestigate cybersecurity incidents. 

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