SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘DHS Cyber Incident 
Response Teams Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY CYBER IN-
CIDENT RESPONSE TEAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2209 of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 148) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)(1)(B)(iv), by inserting ‘‘, 
including cybersecurity specialists’’ after ‘‘entities’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsections (f) through 
(m) as subsections (g) through (n), respectively; 
(3) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-
lowing new subsection (f): 
‘‘(f) CYBER INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAMS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Center shall maintain 
cyber hunt and incident response teams for the pur-
pose of providing, as appropriate and upon request, 
assistance, including the following: 
‘‘(A) Assistance to asset owners and opera-
tors in restoring services following a cyber inci-
dent. 
‘‘(B) The identification of cybersecurity 
risk and unauthorized cyber activity. 
‘‘(C) Mitigation strategies to prevent, 
deter, and protect against cybersecurity risks.
‘‘(D) Recommendations to asset owners 
and operators for improving overall network 
and control systems security to lower cybersecu-
rity risks, and other recommendations, as ap-
propriate. 
‘‘(E) Such other capabilities as the Under 
Secretary appointed under section 103(a)(1)(H) 
determines appropriate. 
‘‘(2) CYBERSECURITY SPECIALISTS.—The Sec-
retary may include cybersecurity specialists from the 
private sector on cyber hunt and incident response 
teams. 
‘‘(3) ASSOCIATED METRICS.—The Center shall 
continually assess and evaluate the cyber incident re-
sponse teams and their operations using robust 
metrics. 
‘‘(4) SUBMITTAL
OF
INFORMATION
TO
CON-
GRESS.—Upon the conclusion of each of the first 4 
fiscal years ending after the date of the enactment 
of this subsection, the Center shall submit to the 
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives and the Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs Committee of the Senate, in-
formation on the metrics used for evaluation and as-
sessment of the cyber incident response teams and
operations pursuant to paragraph (3), including the 
resources and staffing of such cyber incident re-
sponse teams. Such information shall include each of 
the following for the period covered by the report: 
‘‘(A) The total number of incident re-
sponse requests received. 
‘‘(B) The number of incident response 
tickets opened. 
‘‘(C) All interagency staffing of incident 
response teams. 
‘‘(D) The interagency collaborations estab-
lished to support incident response teams.’’; and 
(4) in subsection (g), as redesignated by para-
graph (2)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘, or 
any team or activity of the Center,’’ after ‘‘Cen-
ter’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘, or 
any team or activity of the Center,’’ after ‘‘Cen-
ter’’. 
(b) NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED.—No ad-
ditional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry 
out the requirements of this Act and the amendments
made by this Act. Such requirements shall be carried out 
using amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 10, 2019. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1158 
AN ACT 
To authorize cyber incident response teams at the 
Department of Homeland Security, and for other 
purposes.