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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1833 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for the responsibility 
of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to maintain 
capabilities to identify threats to industrial control systems, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 11, 2021 
Mr. KATKO (for himself, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. GARBARINO, Ms. 
CLARKE of New York, Mr. BACON, Mr. GIMENEZ, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mr. 
LANGEVIN, and Mr. RUTHERFORD) 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 the responsibility of the Cybersecurity and Infrastruc-
ture Security Agency to maintain capabilities to identify 
threats to industrial control systems, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘DHS Industrial Con-
trol Systems Capabilities Enhancement Act of 2021’’. 
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SEC. 2. CAPABILITIES OF THE CYBERSECURITY AND INFRA-
STRUCTURE SECURITY AGENCY TO IDENTIFY 
THREATS TO INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYS-
TEMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2209 of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 659) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (e)(1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (G), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 
(B) in subparagraph (H), by inserting 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(I) activities of the Center address the se-
curity of both information technology and oper-
ational technology, including industrial control 
systems;’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(p) INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS.—The Director 
shall maintain capabilities to identify and address threats 
and vulnerabilities to products and technologies intended 
for use in the automated control of critical infrastructure 
processes. In carrying out this subsection, the Director 
shall— 
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‘‘(1) lead Federal Government efforts to iden-
tify and mitigate cybersecurity threats to industrial 
control systems, including supervisory control and 
data acquisition systems; 
‘‘(2) maintain threat hunting and incident re-
sponse capabilities to respond to industrial control 
system cybersecurity risks and incidents; 
‘‘(3) provide cybersecurity technical assistance 
to industry end-users, product manufacturers, other 
Federal agencies, and other industrial control system 
stakeholders to identify, evaluate, assess, and miti-
gate vulnerabilities; 
‘‘(4) collect, coordinate, and provide vulner-
ability information to the industrial control systems 
community by, as appropriate, working closely with 
security researchers, industry end-users, product 
manufacturers, other Federal agencies, and other in-
dustrial control systems stakeholders; and 
‘‘(5) conduct such other efforts and assistance 
as the Secretary determines appropriate.’’. 
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act and every six 
months thereafter during the subsequent 4-year period, 
the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secu-
rity Agency of the Department of Homeland Security shall 
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provide to the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Home-
land Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a 
briefing on the industrial control systems capabilities of 
the Agency under section 2209 of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 659), as amended by subsection 
(a). 
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