I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1340 
To require the Federal Communications Commission to establish an 
Interagency Communications Security Committee, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 2, 2017 
Mr. ENGEL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight 
and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Federal Communications Commission to es-
tablish an Interagency Communications Security Com-
mittee, 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 ‘‘Interagency Cybersecu-
rity Cooperation Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY COM-
MITTEE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 6 months after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Commu-
nications Commission shall establish an advisory com-
mittee to be known as the Interagency Communications 
Security Committee (in this section referred to as the 
‘‘Committee’’). 
(b) DUTIES.—The Committee shall— 
(1) review each communications security report 
submitted to the Committee under subsection (d) or 
(f); 
(2) recommend investigation to relevant agen-
cies into any such communications security report; 
and 
(3) issue regular reports containing the results 
of any such investigation, the Committee’s findings 
following each communications security incident, and 
policy recommendations that may arise from each 
communications security incident to the following: 
(A) The agencies represented on the Com-
mittee. 
(B) The Committee on Energy and Com-
merce of the House of Representatives. 
(C) The Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate. 
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(D) The Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the House of Representatives. 
(E) The Select Committee on Intelligence 
of the Senate. 
(F) The Armed Services Committee of the 
House of Representatives. 
(G) The Armed Services Committee of the 
Senate. 
(H) The Committee on Homeland Security 
of the House of Representatives. 
(I) The Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate. 
(J) The Foreign Affairs Committee of the 
House of Representatives. 
(K) The Foreign Relations Committee of 
the Senate. 
(c) MEMBERSHIP.—The Committee shall be com-
posed of 8 members, who shall each possess the appro-
priate access to classified information commensurate with 
the sensitivity of the classified information such members 
shall access in the course of service on the Committee. The 
members of the Committee shall include only— 
(1) one appointee from the Commission, who 
shall not be a member of the Commission, to be ap-
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pointed by the Chair of the Commission, who shall 
serve as Chair of the Committee; 
(2) one appointee from the Department of De-
fense, to be appointed by the Secretary of Defense; 
(3) one appointee from the Department of 
Homeland Security, to be appointed by the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security; 
(4) one appointee from the Department of Jus-
tice, to be appointed by the Attorney General of the 
United States; 
(5) one appointee from the intelligence commu-
nity, to be appointed by the Director of National In-
telligence; 
(6) one appointee from the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, to be appointed by the 
Director of the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology; 
(7) one appointee from the National Tele-
communications and Information Administration, to 
be appointed by the Assistant Secretary of Com-
merce for Communications and Information; and 
(8) one appointee from the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, to be appointed by the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget. 
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(d) 
PUBLIC
COMMUNICATIONS
SECURITY
RE-
PORTS.—The Committee shall consider communications 
security reports from communications network providers. 
(e) APPLICATION OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN-
FORMATION PROTECTIONS.—For purposes of subtitle B 
of title II of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
131 et seq.)— 
(1) communications networks shall be treated 
as critical infrastructure and protected systems de-
fined in sections 2(4) and 212(6), respectively, of 
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
101(4); 6 U.S.C. 131(6)); and 
(2) with respect to critical infrastructure infor-
mation relating to communications networks, the 
Federal Communications Commission (in addition to 
the Department of Homeland Security) shall be 
treated as a covered Federal agency defined in sec-
tion 212(2) of such Act. 
(f) 
AGENCY
COMMUNICATIONS
SECURITY
RE-
PORTS.—Not less frequently than every 3 months, the 
head of each agency shall submit to the Committee a re-
port of each communications security incident for the pre-
vious 3 months. 
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(g) CONTINUATION OF COMMITTEE.—Section 14 of 
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) does 
not apply to the Committee. 
(h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 3502 of title 44, 
United States Code. 
(2) COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘communications network’’ means a 
network for the provision of wireline or mobile tele-
phone service, Internet access service, radio or tele-
vision broadcasting, cable service, direct broadcast 
satellite service, or any other communications serv-
ice. 
(3) COMMUNICATIONS
SECURITY
INCIDENT.— 
The term ‘‘communications security incident’’ means 
any compromise, whether electronic or otherwise, of 
any telecommunications system that the agency has 
reason to believe— 
(A) resulted in Government-held or private 
information, including passwords and other 
similar means of access, being viewed or ex-
tracted; or 
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(B) resulted in the presence of outside pro-
gramming on an agency computer or other elec-
tronic device. 
(4) COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY REPORT.—The 
term ‘‘communications security report’’ means a de-
scription of a communications security incident or 
multiple communications security incidents referred 
to the Committee. 
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