SEC. 4. UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL CYBERSPACE 
POLICY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—It is the policy of the United 
States to work internationally to promote an open, inter-
operable, reliable, unfettered, and secure Internet gov-
erned by the multi-stakeholder model, which— 
(1) promotes human rights, democracy, and 
rule of law, including freedom of expression, innova-
tion, communication, and economic prosperity; and 
(2) respects privacy and guards against decep-
tion, fraud, and theft. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.—In implementing the policy 
described in subsection (a), the President, in consultation 
with outside actors, including private sector companies, 
nongovernmental organizations, security researchers, and 
other relevant stakeholders, in the conduct of bilateral and 
multilateral relations, shall pursue the following objectives: 
(1) Clarifying the applicability of international 
laws and norms to the use of ICT. 
(2) Reducing and limiting the risk of escalation 
and retaliation in cyberspace, damage to critical in-
frastructure, and other malicious cyber activity that 
impairs the use and operation of critical infrastruc-
ture that provides services to the public. 
(3) Cooperating with like-minded democratic 
countries that share common values and cyberspace 
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policies with the United States, including respect for 
human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, to ad-
vance such values and policies internationally. 
(4) Encouraging the responsible development of 
new, innovative technologies and ICT products that 
strengthen a secure Internet architecture that is ac-
cessible to all. 
(5) Securing and implementing commitments 
on responsible country behavior in cyberspace based 
upon accepted norms, including the following: 
(A) Countries should not conduct, or 
knowingly support, cyber-enabled theft of intel-
lectual property, including trade secrets or 
other confidential business information, with 
the intent of providing competitive advantages 
to companies or commercial sectors. 
(B) Countries should take all appropriate 
and reasonable efforts to keep their territories 
clear of intentionally wrongful acts using ICTs 
in violation of international commitments. 
(C) Countries should not conduct or know-
ingly support ICT activity that, contrary to 
international law, intentionally damages or oth-
erwise impairs the use and operation of critical 
infrastructure providing services to the public, 
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and should take appropriate measures to pro-
tect their critical infrastructure from ICT 
threats. 
(D) Countries should not conduct or know-
ingly support malicious international activity 
that, contrary to international law, harms the 
information systems of authorized emergency 
response teams (also known as ‘‘computer 
emergency response teams’’ or ‘‘cybersecurity 
incident response teams’’) of another country or 
authorize emergency response teams to engage 
in malicious international activity. 
(E) Countries should respond to appro-
priate requests for assistance to mitigate mali-
cious ICT activity emanating from their terri-
tory and aimed at the critical infrastructure of 
another country. 
(F) Countries should not restrict cross-bor-
der data flows or require local storage or proc-
essing of data. 
(G) Countries should protect the exercise 
of human rights and fundamental freedoms on 
the Internet and commit to the principle that 
the human rights that people have offline 
should also be protected online. 
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(6) Advancing, encouraging, and supporting the 
development and adoption of internationally recog-
nized technical standards and best practices. 
SEC. 5. DEPARTMENT OF STATE RESPONSIBILITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1 of the State Depart-
ment Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a) 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-
section (h); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(g) BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL CYBERSPACE POL-
ICY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established, within 
the Department of State, a Bureau of International 
Cyberspace Policy (referred to in this subsection as 
the ‘Bureau’). The head of the Bureau shall have 
the rank and status of ambassador and shall be ap-
pointed by the President, by and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate. 
‘‘(2) DUTIES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The head of the Bu-
reau shall perform such duties and exercise 
such powers as the Secretary of State shall pre-
scribe, including implementing the policy of the 
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United States described in section 4 of the 
Cyber Diplomacy Act of 2021. 
‘‘(B) DUTIES DESCRIBED.—The principal 
duties and responsibilities of the head of the 
Bureau shall be— 
‘‘(i) to serve as the principal cyber-
space policy official within the senior man-
agement of the Department of State and 
as the advisor to the Secretary of State for 
cyberspace issues; 
‘‘(ii) to lead the Department of 
State’s diplomatic cyberspace efforts, in-
cluding efforts relating to international cy-
bersecurity, Internet access, Internet free-
dom, digital economy, cybercrime, deter-
rence and international responses to cyber 
threats, and other issues that the Sec-
retary assigns to the Bureau; 
‘‘(iii) to promote an open, interoper-
able, reliable, unfettered, and secure infor-
mation and communications technology in-
frastructure globally; 
‘‘(iv) to represent the Secretary of 
State in interagency efforts to develop and 
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