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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5179 

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to coordinate a National Cyber 

Hacking Competition for high school students, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 6, 2018 

Ms. BARRAGA ́N introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Education and the Workforce 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to coordinate 

a National Cyber Hacking Competition for high school 

students, 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 ‘‘National Cyber Hack5 ing Competition for our Youth Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPETITION. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Department 

8 of Homeland Security shall coordinate a National Cyber 

9 Hacking Competition for students at secondary schools, 

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1 gressional district. The Secretary shall coordinate with 

2 Members of Congress to promote the Competition with ap3 propriate outreach to local educational agencies. 

4 (b) COORDINATION.—The Secretary of Homeland Se5 curity, in consultation with local educational agencies, 

6 shall establish rules and guidelines for the implementation 

7 of the competition described in subsection (a). The Sec8 retary shall post such rules and guidelines on a publically9 accessible webpage of the Department of Homeland Secu10 rity. 

11 (c) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the Competition in12 clude the following: 

13 (1) Promoting and developing a 21st century 

14 cybersecurity workforce for high school students by 

15 increasing awareness of emerging technologies to 

16 combat cybersecurity risks. 

17 (2) Engaging students and State and local gov18 ernments to collaborate with industries to strengthen 

19 and secure information systems and prevent 

20 vulnerabilities. 

21 (3) Advancing cybersecurity’s role in preventing 

22 large scale data theft, scams, and malicious informa23 tion operations that affect millions of Americans. 

24 (4) Addressing best practices and privacy tools 

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1 holds, State and local governments, and industries 

2 connected online. 

3 (5) Actively engaging students from commu4 nities that are traditionally under-represented or low 

5 performing in science, technology, engineering, or 

6 mathematics. 

7 (6) Initiating innovative policymaking by con8 necting State and local governments to secondary 

9 school students on new and emerging cybersecurity 

10 risks and prevention. 

11 (d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this Act 

12 may be construed as requiring secondary schools to par13 ticipate in the Competition. 

14 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

15 (1) COMPETITION.—The term ‘‘Competition’’ 

16 means the National Cyber Hacking Competition 

17 under this section. 

18 (2) CYBERSECURITY RISK.—The term ‘‘cyberse19 curity risk’’ has the meaning given such term in sec20 tion 227 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 

21 U.S.C. 148). 

22 (3) INFORMATION SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘infor23 mation system’’ has the meaning given such term in 

24 section 3502 of title 44, United States Code. 


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1 (4) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The term 

2 ‘‘local educational agency’’ has the meaning given 

3 such term in section 8101 of the Elementary and 

4 Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 

5 (5) SECONDARY SCHOOL.—The term ‘‘sec6 ondary school’’ has the meaning given such term in 

7 section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu8 cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 

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