IIB 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3710 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
OCTOBER 15, 2019 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide 
for the remediation of cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cybersecurity Vulner-
ability Remediation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CYBERSECURITY VULNERABILITIES. 
Section 2209 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 659) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
after the semicolon at the end; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (6) as 
paragraph (7); and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (5) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(6) the term ‘cybersecurity vulnerability’ has 
the meaning given the term ‘security vulnerability’ 
in section 102 of the Cybersecurity Information 
Sharing Act of 2015 (6 U.S.C. 1501); and’’. 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (5)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at the end; 
(ii) by redesignating subparagraph 
(B) as subparagraph (C); 
(iii) by inserting after subparagraph 
(A) the following new subparagraph: 
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‘‘(B) sharing mitigation protocols to counter cy-
bersecurity vulnerabilities pursuant to subsection 
(n); and’’; and 
(iv) in subparagraph (C), as so redes-
ignated, by inserting ‘‘and mitigation pro-
tocols 
to 
counter 
cybersecurity 
vulnerabilities in accordance with subpara-
graph (B)’’ before ‘‘with Federal’’; 
(B) in paragraph (7)(C), by striking 
‘‘sharing’’ and inserting ‘‘share’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (9), by inserting ‘‘mitiga-
tion 
protocols 
to 
counter 
cybersecurity 
vulnerabilities,’’ after ‘‘measures,’’; 
(3) in subsection (e)(1)(G), by striking the 
semicolon after ‘‘and’’ at the end; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(n) PROTOCOLS
TO
COUNTER
CYBERSECURITY 
VULNERABILITIES.—The Director may, as appropriate, 
identify, develop, and disseminate actionable protocols to 
mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities, including in cir-
cumstances in which such vulnerabilities exist because 
software or hardware is no longer supported by a ven-
dor.’’. 
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SEC. 3. REPORT ON CYBERSECURITY VULNERABILITIES. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Cyberse-
curity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security shall submit to the Committee 
on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate a report on how the Agency 
carries out subsection (m) of section 2209 of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 to coordinate vulnerability dis-
closures, 
including 
disclosures 
of 
cybersecurity 
vulnerabilities (as such term is defined in such section), 
and subsection (n) of such section (as added by section 
2) to disseminate actionable protocols to mitigate cyberse-
curity vulnerabilities, that includes the following: 
(1) A description of the policies and procedures 
relating to the coordination of vulnerability disclo-
sures. 
(2) A description of the levels of activity in fur-
therance of such subsections (m) and (n) of such 
section 2209. 
(3) Any plans to make further improvements to 
how information provided pursuant to such sub-
sections can be shared (as such term is defined in 
such section 2209) between the Department and in-
dustry and other stakeholders. 
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(4) Any available information on the degree to 
which such information was acted upon by industry 
and other stakeholders. 
(5) A description of how privacy and civil lib-
erties are preserved in the collection, retention, use, 
and sharing of vulnerability disclosures. 
(b) FORM.—The report required under subsection (b) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form but may contain 
a classified annex. 
SEC. 4. COMPETITION RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY 
VULNERABILITIES. 
The Under Secretary for Science and Technology of 
the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation 
with the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 
Security Agency of the Department, may establish an in-
centive-based program that allows industry, individuals, 
academia, and others to compete in providing remediation 
solutions for cybersecurity vulnerabilities (as such term is 
defined in section 2209 of the Homeland Security Act of 
2002, as amended by section 2). 
Passed the House of Representatives September 26, 
2019. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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