Title: State and Local Government Cybersecurity Act of 2021
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
State and Local Government Cybersecurity Act of 2021
This bill provides for collaboration between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as corporations, associations, and the general public, regarding cybersecurity.
The bill expands DHS responsibilities through grants and cooperative agreements, including provision of assistance and education related to cyber threat indicators, proactive and defensive measures and cybersecurity technologies, cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, incident response and management, analysis, and warnings.
The bill requires the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center to coordinate with entities such as the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center to (1) conduct exercises, (2) provide operational and technical cybersecurity training, and (3) promote cybersecurity education and awareness.
DHS shall establish a pilot program to deploy network sensors for the purpose of identifying and filtering malicious network traffic.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2520 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2520

 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for engagements 
 with State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 28, 2021

  Mr. Peters introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for engagements 
 with State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``State and Local Government 
Cybersecurity Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE HOMELAND SECURITY ACT OF 2002.

    Subtitle A of title XXII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 
U.S.C. 651 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 2201 (6 U.S.C. 651)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) 
                as paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) Entity.--The term `entity' shall include--
                    ``(A) an association, corporation, whether for-
                profit or nonprofit, partnership, proprietorship, 
                organization, institution, establishment, or 
                individual, whether domestic or foreign;
                    ``(B) a governmental agency or other governmental 
                entity, whether domestic or foreign, including State, 
                local, Tribal, and territorial government entities; and
                    ``(C) the general public.'';
            (2) in section 2202 (6 U.S.C. 652)--
                    (A) in subsection (c)--
                            (i) in paragraph (11), by striking ``and'' 
                        at the end;
                            (ii) in the first paragraph (12), by 
                        striking ``and'' at the end;
                            (iii) by redesignating the second and third 
                        paragraphs (12) as paragraphs (13) and (15), 
                        respectively;
                            (iv) in paragraph (13), as so redesignated, 
                        by striking ``and'' at the end; and
                            (v) by inserting after paragraph (13), as 
                        so redesignated, the following:
            ``(14) carry out the authority of the Secretary under 
        subsection (e)(1)(S); and''; and
                    (B) in subsection (e)(1), by adding at the end the 
                following:
                    ``(S) To make grants to and enter into cooperative 
                agreements or contracts with States, local, Tribal, and 
                territorial governments, and other non-Federal entities 
                as the Secretary determines necessary to carry out the 
                responsibilities of the Secretary related to 
                cybersecurity and infrastructure security under this 
                Act and any other provision of law, including grants, 
                cooperative agreements, and contracts that provide 
                assistance and education related to cyber threat 
                indicators, defensive measures and cybersecurity 
                technologies, cybersecurity risks, incidents, analysis, 
                and warnings.''; and
            (3) in section 2209 (6 U.S.C. 659)--
                    (A) in subsection (c)(6), by inserting 
                ``operational and'' before ``timely'';
                    (B) in subsection (d)(1)(E), by inserting ``, 
                including an entity that collaborates with election 
                officials,'' after ``governments''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(p) Coordination on Cybersecurity for Federal and Non-Federal 
Entities.--
            ``(1) Coordination.--The Center shall, to the extent 
        practicable, and in coordination as appropriate with Federal 
        and non-Federal entities, such as the Multi-State Information 
        Sharing and Analysis Center--
                    ``(A) conduct exercises with Federal and non-
                Federal entities;
                    ``(B) provide operational and technical 
                cybersecurity training related to cyber threat 
                indicators, proactive and defensive measures, 
                cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, and incident 
                response and management to Federal and non-Federal 
                entities to address cybersecurity risks or incidents, 
                with or without reimbursement;
                    ``(C) assist Federal and non-Federal entities, upon 
                request, in sharing actionable and real time cyber 
                threat indicators, defensive measures, cybersecurity 
                risks, and incidents from and to the Federal Government 
                as well as among Federal and non-Federal entities, in 
                order to increase situational awareness and help 
                prevent incidents;
                    ``(D) provide notifications containing specific 
                incident and malware information that may affect them 
                or their customers and residents;
                    ``(E) provide and periodically update via an easily 
                accessible platform and other means tools, products, 
                resources, policies, guidelines, controls, and other 
                cybersecurity standards and best practices and 
                procedures related to information security;
                    ``(F) work with senior Federal and non-Federal 
                officials, including State, local, Tribal, and 
                territorial Chief Information Officers, senior election 
                officials, and through national associations, to 
                coordinate a nationwide effort to ensure effective 
                implementation of tools, products, resources, policies, 
                guidelines, controls, and procedures related to 
                information security to secure and ensure the 
                resiliency of Federal and non-Federal information 
                systems, including election systems;
                    ``(G) provide, upon request, operational and 
                technical assistance to Federal and non-Federal 
                entities to implement tools, products, resources, 
                policies, guidelines, controls, and procedures on 
                information security, including by, as appropriate, 
                deploying and sustaining cybersecurity technologies, 
                such as an intrusion and threat detection capability, 
                to assist those Federal and non-Federal entities in 
                detecting cybersecurity risks and incidents;
                    ``(H) assist Federal and non-Federal entities in 
                developing policies and procedures for coordinating 
                vulnerability disclosures, to the extent practicable, 
                consistent with international and national standards in 
                the information technology industry;
                    ``(I) ensure that Federal and non-Federal entities, 
                as appropriate, are made aware of the tools, products, 
                resources, policies, guidelines, controls, and 
                procedures on information security developed by the 
                Department and other appropriate Federal departments 
                and agencies for ensuring the security and resiliency 
                of civilian information systems; and
                    ``(J) promote cybersecurity education and awareness 
                through engagements with Federal and non-Federal 
                entities.
    ``(q) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this subsection, and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary shall 
submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives a report on--
            ``(1) the status of cybersecurity measures that are in 
        place, and any gaps that exist, in each State and in the 
        largest urban areas of the United States;
            ``(2) the services and capabilities that the Agency 
        directly provides to governmental agencies or other 
        governmental entities; and
            ``(3) the services and capabilities that the Agency 
        indirectly provides to governmental agencies or other 
        governmental entities through an entity described in section 
        2201(4)(B).''.
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