In the Senate of the United States, 

September 28, 2022. 

Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 3462) entitled ‘‘An Act to require an annual report on the cybersecurity of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.’’, do pass with the following 

AMENDMENT: 

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: 

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SBA Cyber Awareness 

3 Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS REPORTING. 

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

6 Act (15 U.S.C. 639) is amended by inserting after sub7 section (a) the following: 

8 ‘‘(b) CYBERSECURITY REPORTS.— 

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

10 after the date of enactment of this subsection, and 

11 every year thereafter, the Administrator shall submit 
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1 a report to the appropriate congressional committees 

2 that includes— 

3 ‘‘(A) a strategy to increase the cybersecurity 

4 of information technology infrastructure of the 

5 Administration; 

6 ‘‘(B) a supply chain risk management 

7 strategy and an implementation plan to address 

8 the risks of foreign manufactured information 

9 technology equipment utilized by the Adminis10 tration, including specific risk mitigation activi11 ties for components originating from entities 

12 with principal places of business located in the 

13 People’s Republic of China; and 

14 ‘‘(C) an account of— 

15 ‘‘(i) any incident that occurred at the 

16 Administration during the 2-year period 

17 preceding the date on which the first report 

18 is submitted, and, for subsequent reports, 

19 the 1-year period preceding the date of sub20 mission; and 

21 ‘‘(ii) any action taken by the Adminis22 trator to respond to or remediate any such 

23 incident. 

24 ‘‘(2) FISMA REPORTS.—Each report required 

25 under paragraph (1) may be submitted as part of the 
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1 report required under section 3554 of title 44, United 

2 States Code. 

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

4 subsection shall be construed to affect the reporting re5 quirements of the Administrator under chapter 35 of 

6 title 44, United States Code, in particular the re7 quirement to notify the Federal information security 

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

9 title, any guidance issued by the Office of Manage10 ment and Budget, or any other provision of law or 

11 Federal policy. 

12 ‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 

13 ‘‘(A) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COM14 MITTEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional 

15 committees’ means— 

16 ‘‘(i) the Committee on Small Business 

17 and Entrepreneurship of the Senate; 

18 ‘‘(ii) the Committee on Homeland Se19 curity and Governmental Affairs of the Sen20 ate; 

21 ‘‘(iii) the Committee on Small Busi22 ness of the House of Representatives; and 

23 ‘‘(iv) the Committee on Oversight and 

24 Reform of the House of Representatives. 
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1 ‘‘(B) INCIDENT.—The term ‘incident’ has 

2 the meaning given the term in section 3552 of 

3 title 44, United States Code. 

4 ‘‘(C) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.—The 

5 term ‘information technology’ has the meaning 

6 given the term in section 3502 of title 44, United 

7 States Code.’’. 

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

9 enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Small Busi10 ness Administration shall, to the greatest extent practicable, 

11 provide to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepre12 neurship of the Senate, the Committee on Homeland Secu13 rity and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee 

14 on Small Business of the House of Representatives, and the 

15 Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of Rep16 resentatives a detailed account of information technology 

17 (as defined in section 3502 of title 44, United States Code) 

18 of the Small Business Administration that was manufac19 tured by an entity that has its principal place of business 

20 located in the People’s Republic of China. 

Attest: 

Secretary. 

117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H.R. 3462 

AMENDMENT