Title: Cyber VICTIM Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Cyber Valuing Individual Cybersecurity Through Interagency Measures Act or the Cyber VICTIM Act
This bill requires the President to designate a federal official as the interagency cyber victim response coordinator. The interagency cyber victim coordinator must respond to data breaches and other cyber attacks on federal employees.
Additionally, the coordinator must: (1) coordinate activities of the federal government relating to incidents of data breaches; (2) chair an interagency working group, consisting of appropriate personnel of the federal government and responding to cyber attacks against federal employees; (3) ensure sufficient representation of each federal agency at the interagency working group; and (4) develop processes and procedures to inform victims of efforts to mitigate damage from data breaches and prosecute perpetrators.
The President must develop a comprehensive plan for the U.S. response to data breaches of personal information of federal employees.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3403 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3403

 To provide for an interagency cyber victim coordinator to respond to 
      data breaches and other cyber attacks on Federal employees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2017

Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself, Mr. Ruppersberger, and Mr. Wittman) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                    Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for an interagency cyber victim coordinator to respond to 
      data breaches and other cyber attacks on Federal employees.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Cyber Valuing Individual 
Cybersecurity Through Interagency Measures Act'' or the ``Cyber VICTIM 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY CYBER VICTIM RESPONSE.

    (a) Interagency Cyber Victim Coordinator.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the President shall designate a 
        Federal official to coordinate efforts to respond to data 
        breaches and other cyber attacks on Federal employees. Such 
        official shall have the title of interagency cyber victim 
        response coordinator.
            (2) Duties.--The coordinator designated under paragraph (1) 
        shall have the following duties:
                    (A) Coordinate activities of the Federal Government 
                relating to incidents of data breaches in which the 
                data of Federal employees, including Social Security 
                numbers, personal financial information, addresses, and 
                other private identifying information, has been 
                compromised, to--
                            (i) ensure victims receive appropriate 
                        response and assistance from the Federal 
                        Government; and
                            (ii) ensure synchronization of intelligence 
                        and responses among Federal law enforcement 
                        agencies to incidents of cyber attacks against 
                        Federal employees.
                    (B) Chair an interagency working group consisting 
                of appropriate personnel of the Federal Government with 
                purview over response to cyber attacks against Federal 
                employees.
                    (C) Ensure sufficient representation of each 
                Federal agency and department at any interagency 
                working group established under subparagraph (B).
                    (D) Develop processes and procedures to keep 
                victims informed of efforts to--
                            (i) mitigate damage from data breaches; and
                            (ii) prosecute perpetrators.
    (b) Annual Report.--
            (1) In general.--On an annual basis, the Coordinator shall 
        submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
        that includes a summary of each data breach described in 
        subsection (a)(1) that occurred during the year for which the 
        report is submitted.
            (2) Form of report.--Each report under paragraph (1) may be 
        submitted in classified or unclassified form.
    (c) Comprehensive Plan To Address Cyber Attacks.--Not later than 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President 
shall develop a comprehensive plan for the United States response to 
data breaches of personal information of Federal employees.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section, the following definitions apply:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
                on the Judiciary, the Permanent Select Committee on 
                Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland Security of 
                the House of Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
                on the Judiciary, the Select Committee on Intelligence, 
                and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
                Affairs of the Senate.
            (2) Data breach.--The term ``data breach'' means an 
        unauthorized intrusion of a Federal database resulting in a 
        breach of personal information of a Federal employee, 
        including--
                    (A) the 2015 breaches of the Office of Personnel 
                Management databases relating to background security 
                checks and Federal employee background information; and
                    (B) the November 2014 breach of the United States 
                Postal Service employee database system.
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