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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5960 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for engagements 
with State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 12, 2021 
Mr. NEGUSE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Homeland Security 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide 
for engagements with State, local, Tribal, and territorial 
governments, 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 ‘‘State and Local Gov-
ernment Cybersecurity Act of 2021’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE HOMELAND SECURITY ACT 
OF 2002. 
Subtitle A of title XXII of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) is amended— 
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(1) in section 2201 (6 U.S.C. 651), by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) SLTT ENTITY.—The term ‘SLTT entity’ 
means a domestic government entity that is a State 
government, local government, Tribal government, 
territorial government, or any subdivision thereof.’’; 
and 
(2) in section 2209 (6 U.S.C. 659)— 
(A) in subsection (c)(6), by inserting 
‘‘operational and’’ before ‘‘timely’’; 
(B) in subsection (d)(1)(E), by inserting ‘‘, 
including an entity that collaborates with elec-
tion officials,’’ after ‘‘governments’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(p) COORDINATION ON CYBERSECURITY FOR SLTT 
ENTITIES.— 
‘‘(1) COORDINATION.—The Center shall, upon 
request and to the extent practicable, and in coordi-
nation as appropriate with Federal and non-Federal 
entities, such as the Multi-State Information Shar-
ing and Analysis Center— 
‘‘(A) conduct exercises with SLTT entities; 
‘‘(B) provide operational and technical cy-
bersecurity training to SLTT entities to ad-
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dress cybersecurity risks or incidents, with or 
without reimbursement, related to— 
‘‘(i) cyber threat indicators; 
‘‘(ii) defensive measures; 
‘‘(iii) cybersecurity risks; 
‘‘(iv) vulnerabilities; and 
‘‘(v) incident response and manage-
ment; 
‘‘(C) in order to increase situational aware-
ness and help prevent incidents, assist SLTT 
entities in sharing, in real time, with the Fed-
eral Government, as well as among SLTT enti-
ties, actionable— 
‘‘(i) cyber threat indicators; 
‘‘(ii) defensive measures; 
‘‘(iii) information about cybersecurity 
risks or vulnerabilities; and 
‘‘(iv) information about incidents; 
‘‘(D) provide SLTT entities notifications 
containing specific incident and malware infor-
mation that may affect them or their residents; 
‘‘(E) provide to, and periodically update, 
SLTT entities via an easily accessible platform 
and other means— 
‘‘(i) information about tools; 
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