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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6002 
To provide for the acquisition and publication of data relating to cybercrimes 
against individuals, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016 
Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To provide for the acquisition and publication of data relat-
ing to cybercrimes against individuals, 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 ‘‘Cybercrime Statistics 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. NATIONAL STRATEGY, CLASSIFICATION, AND RE-
PORTING ON CYBERCRIME. 
(a) NATIONAL STRATEGY.—The Attorney General 
shall develop a national strategy to reduce the incidence 
of cybercrimes against individuals, coordinate investiga-
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tions of cybercrimes against individuals by Federal law en-
forcement agencies, and increase the number of Federal 
prosecutions of cybercrimes against individuals. 
(b) CLASSIFICATION OF CYBERCRIMES AGAINST IN-
DIVIDUALS FOR PURPOSES OF CRIME REPORTS.—Pursu-
ant to authority under section 534 of title 28, United 
States Code, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation shall— 
(1) design and create within the Uniform Crime 
Reports a category for offenses that constitute 
cybercrimes against individuals; 
(2) to the extent feasible, within the category 
established pursuant to paragraph (1), establish sub-
categories for each type of cybercrime against an in-
dividual which is an offense under Federal or State 
law; 
(3) classify the category established pursuant to 
paragraph (1) as a Part 1 crime in the Uniform 
Crime Reports; and 
(4) classify each type of cybercrime against an 
individual which is an offense under Federal or 
State law as a Group A offense for the purpose of 
the National Incident-Based Reporting System. 
(c) ANNUAL SUMMARY.—The Attorney General shall 
publish an annual summary of the information reported 
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in the Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident- 
Based Reporting System relating to cybercrimes against 
individuals. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ) The term ‘‘cybercrimes against individ-
uals’’ means Federal, State, or local criminal of-
fenses that involve the use of a computer to cause 
personal harm to an individual, such as the use of 
a computer to harass, threaten, stalk, extort, coerce, 
cause fear, intimidate, without consent distribute in-
timate images of, or violate the privacy of, an indi-
vidual, except that— 
(A) use of a computer need not be an ele-
ment of such an offense; and 
(B) such term does not include the use of 
a computer to cause harm to a commercial enti-
ty, government agency, or any non-natural per-
sons. 
(2) The term ‘‘computer’’ includes a computer 
network and any interactive electronic device. 
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