H. R. 3462 

One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-two 

An Act 

To require an annual report on the cybersecurity of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SBA Cyber Awareness Act’’. 

SEC. 2. CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS REPORTING. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 10 of the Small Business Act (15 

U.S.C. 639) is amended by inserting after subsection (a) the following: 

‘‘(b) CYBERSECURITY REPORTS.— 

‘‘(1) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the 

date of enactment of this subsection, and every year thereafter, 

the Administrator shall submit a report to the appropriate 

congressional committees that includes— 

‘‘(A) a strategy to increase the cybersecurity of information technology infrastructure of the Administration; 

‘‘(B) a supply chain risk management strategy and 

an implementation plan to address the risks of foreign 

manufactured information technology equipment utilized 

by the Administration, including specific risk mitigation 

activities for components originating from entities with 

principal places of business located in the People’s Republic 

of China; and 

‘‘(C) an account of— 

‘‘(i) any incident that occurred at the Administration during the 2-year period preceding the date on 

which the first report is submitted, and, for subsequent 

reports, the 1-year period preceding the date of submission; and 

‘‘(ii) any action taken by the Administrator to 

respond to or remediate any such incident. 

‘‘(2) FISMA REPORTS.—Each report required under paragraph (1) may be submitted as part of the report required 

under section 3554 of title 44, United States Code. 

‘‘(3) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this subsection 

shall be construed to affect the reporting requirements of the 

Administrator under chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, 

in particular the requirement to notify the Federal information 

security incident center under section 3554(b)(7)(C)(ii) of such 

title, any guidance issued by the Office of Management and 

Budget, or any other provision of law or Federal policy. 
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‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 

‘‘(A) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.—The 

term ‘appropriate congressional committees’ means— 

‘‘(i) the Committee on Small Business and 

Entrepreneurship of the Senate; 

‘‘(ii) the Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 

‘‘(iii) the Committee on Small Business of the 

House of Representatives; and 

‘‘(iv) the Committee on Oversight and Reform of 

the House of Representatives. 

‘‘(B) INCIDENT.—The term ‘incident’ has the meaning 

given the term in section 3552 of title 44, United States 

Code. 

‘‘(C) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.—The term ‘information technology’ has the meaning given the term in section 

3502 of title 44, United States Code.’’. 

(b) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 

of this Act, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration 

shall, to the greatest extent practicable, provide to the Committee 

on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 

Senate, the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the 

House of Representatives a detailed account of information technology (as defined in section 3502 of title 44, United States Code) 

of the Small Business Administration that was manufactured by 

an entity that has its principal place of business located in the 

People’s Republic of China. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.