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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 21 

To secure the United States against cyber attack, to improve communication 

and collaboration between the private sector and the Federal Government, 

to enhance American competitiveness and create jobs in the information 

technology industry, and to protect the identities and sensitive information of American citizens and businesses. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 22 (legislative day, JANUARY 3), 2013 

Mr. ROCKEFELLER (for himself, Mr. CARPER, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. LEVIN, 

Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, and Mr. COONS) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL 

To secure the United States against cyber attack, to improve 

communication and collaboration between the private sector and the Federal Government, to enhance American 

competitiveness and create jobs in the information technology industry, and to protect the identities and sensitive information of American citizens and businesses. 

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 ‘‘Cybersecurity and 

5 American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 2013’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress makes the following findings: 

3 (1) The country’s leading officials in business, 

4 intelligence, and defense affairs agree that malicious 

5 state, terrorist, and criminal actors exploiting 

6 vulnerabilities in information and communications 

7 networks and gaps in cybersecurity pose one of the 

8 most serious and rapidly growing threats to both the 

9 national security and the economy of the United 

10 States. 

11 (2) With information technology now the back12 bone of the United States economy, a critical ele13 ment of United States national security infrastruc14 ture and defense systems, the primary foundation of 

15 global communications, and a key enabler of most 

16 critical infrastructure, nearly every single United 

17 States citizen is touched by cyberspace and is threat18 ened by cyber attacks. 

19 (3) Malicious actors in cyberspace have already 

20 caused significant damage to the United States Gov21 ernment, the United States economy, and United 

22 States citizens, and the threat continues to grow. 

23 (4) In its 2009 Cyberspace Policy Review, the 

24 White House concluded, ‘‘Ensuring that cyberspace 

25 is sufficiently resilient and trustworthy to support 

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1 vacy protections, national security, and the contin2 ued advancement of democratic institutions requires 

3 making cybersecurity a national priority.’’. 

4 (5) Leading experts in the private sector and 

5 the government agree that the United States should 

6 establish a new model of public-private collaboration, 

7 which fits the realities of the 21st century, to secure 

8 the country against cyber attack. 

9 SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

10 It is the sense of Congress that Congress should 

11 enact, and the President should sign, bipartisan legislation 

12 to improve communication and collaboration between the 

13 private sector and the Federal Government to secure the 

14 United States against cyber attack, to enhance the com15 petitiveness of the United States and create jobs in the 

16 information technology industry, and to protect the identi17 ties and sensitive information of United States citizens 

18 and businesses by— 

19 (1) enhancing the security and resiliency of 

20 public and private communications and information 

21 networks against cyber attack by nation-states, ter22 rorists, and cyber criminals; 

23 (2) establishing mechanisms for sharing cyber 

24 threat and vulnerability information between the 

25 government and the private sector; 


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1 (3) developing a coherent public-private system 

2 to improve the capability of the United States to as3 sess cyber risk and prevent, detect, and robustly re4 spond to cyber attacks against United States critical 

5 infrastructure, such as the electric grid, the financial 

6 sector, and telecommunications networks; 

7 (4) promoting research and development invest8 ments in the United States information technology 

9 sector that create and maintain good, well-paying 

10 jobs in the United States and help to enhance the 

11 economic competitiveness and cybersecurity of the 

12 United States; 

13 (5) promoting cybersecurity and information 

14 technology training to develop the country’s next 

15 generation of cyber professionals; 

16 (6) preventing and mitigating identity theft and 

17 guarding against abuses or breaches of personally 

18 identifiable information; 

19 (7) enhancing United States diplomatic capac20 ity and public-private international cooperation to 

21 respond to emerging cyber threats, including pro22 moting security and freedom of access for commu23 nications and information networks around the 

24 world and battling global cyber crime through fo25 cused diplomacy; 


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1 (8) expanding tools and resources for inves2 tigating and prosecuting cyber crimes in a manner 

3 that respects privacy rights and civil liberties and 

4 promotes United States innovation; and 

5 (9) maintaining robust protections of the pri6 vacy of United States citizens and their online activi7 ties and communications. 

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