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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7589 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish term limits 
for the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency 
of Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 13, 2020 
Mr. KATKO (for himself, Mr. LANGEVIN, and Mr. GALLAGHER) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, and 
Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish 
term limits for the Director of the Cybersecurity and 
Infrastructure Security Agency of Department of Home-
land Security, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cybersecurity and In-
frastructure Security Agency Director and Assistant Di-
rectors Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. CISA DIRECTOR TERM LIMITATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section 2202 of 
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 652) is 
amended by— 
(1) redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph 
(3); and 
(2) inserting after paragraph (1) the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(2) TERM.—Effective with respect to an indi-
vidual appointed to be the Director by the President, 
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 
after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, 
the term of office of such an individual so appointed 
shall be five years, and such an individual may not 
serve more than two terms. The term of office of the 
individual serving as the Director as of such date of 
enactment shall be five years beginning on the date 
on which the Director began serving.’’. 
(b) AMENDMENT RELATING
TO QUALIFICATIONS 
FOR CERTAIN CISA ASSISTANT DIRECTORS.—The Home-
land Security Act of 2002 is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (B) of section 2203(a)(2) 
(6 U.S.C. 653(a)(2)), by striking ‘‘President without 
the advice and consent of the Senate’’ and inserting 
‘‘Secretary’’; and 
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(2) in subparagraph (B) of section 2204(a)(2) 
(6 U.S.C. 654(a)(2)), by striking ‘‘President without 
the advice and consent of the Senate’’ and inserting 
‘‘Secretary’’. 
(c) AMENDMENT TO POSITION LEVEL OF CISA DI-
RECTOR.—Subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in section 5313, by inserting after ‘‘Admin-
istrator of the Transportation Security Administra-
tion.’’ the following: 
‘‘Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Se-
curity Agency.’’; and 
(2) in section 5314, by striking ‘‘Director, Cy-
bersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.’’. 
Æ 
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