Title: U.S.-Israel Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
U.S.-Israel Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Act
This bill requires the Department of State to report on the potential benefits and impact of establishing a joint U.S.-Israel Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to leverage the knowledge of institutions and entities for the purposes of cybersecurity and protecting critical infrastructure.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2309 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2309

   To require the Secretary of State to submit a report on potential 
benefits and impact to the United States of establishing a joint United 
           States-Israel cybersecurity center of excellence.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 29, 2019

 Ms. Rosen (for herself and Mr. Rounds) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of State to submit a report on potential 
benefits and impact to the United States of establishing a joint United 
           States-Israel cybersecurity center of excellence.

    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 ``U.S.-Israel Cybersecurity Center of 
Excellence Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON POTENTIAL BENEFITS AND IMPACT TO THE UNITED STATES OF 
              ESTABLISHING A JOINT UNITED STATES-ISRAEL CYBERSECURITY 
              CENTER OF EXCELLENCE.

    Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a report examining the potential benefits and 
impact to the United States of establishing a joint United States-
Israel Cybersecurity Center of Excellence based in the United States 
and Israel to leverage the experience, knowledge, and expertise of 
institutions of higher education (as such term is defined in subsection 
(a) or (b) of section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1001)), private sector entities, and government entities in the 
area of cybersecurity and protection of critical infrastructure (as 
such term is defined in subsection (e) of section 1016 of the Critical 
Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001 (42 U.S.C. 5195c; enacted in 
title X of the USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law 107-56)).

SEC. 3. APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DEFINED.

    In this Act, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
means--
            (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 
        Armed Services, and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
        Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
            (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
        Armed Services, and the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
        House of Representatives.
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