Title: Ensuring America’s Critical Infrastructure Act
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Ensuring America's Critical Infrastructure Act
This bill expands the definition of critical infrastructure under the Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001 in the USA PATRIOT Act. The term currently means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, or national public health or safety.
The bill includes certain sectors as part of the existing definition, including communications, dams, emergency services, energy, financial services, food and agriculture, healthcare, information technology, transportation systems, and water and wastewater systems.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9337 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9337

To amend the USA PATRIOT Act to designate critical infrastructures, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 2022

 Mr. Jackson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the USA PATRIOT Act to designate critical infrastructures, 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 ``Ensuring America's Critical 
Infrastructure Act''.

SEC. 2. CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEFINED.

    Section 1016(e) of the USA PATRIOT Act (42 U.S.C. 5195c(e)) is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(e) Critical Infrastructure Defined.--In this section, the term 
`critical infrastructure'--
            ``(1) means systems and assets, whether physical or 
        virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or 
        destruction of such systems and assets would have a 
        debilitating impact on security, national economic security, 
        national public health or safety, or any combination of those 
        matters; and
            ``(2) includes the following sectors:
                    ``(A) Chemical.
                    ``(B) Commercial facilities.
                    ``(C) Communications.
                    ``(D) Critical manufacturing.
                    ``(E) Dams.
                    ``(F) Defense industrial base.
                    ``(G) Emergency services.
                    ``(H) Energy.
                    ``(I) Financial services.
                    ``(J) Food and agriculture.
                    ``(K) Government facilities.
                    ``(L) Healthcare and public health.
                    ``(M) Information technology.
                    ``(N) Nuclear reactors, materials, and waste.
                    ``(O) Transportation systems.
                    ``(P) Water and wastewater systems.''.
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