Interagency Cybersecurity Cooperation Act

Bill: 115-hr-1340
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2017-03-02
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advisory bodies

Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies

Computer security and identity theft

Congressional oversight

Executive agency funding and structure

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Government studies and investigations

Internet and video services

Internet, web applications, social media

Telephone and wireless communication

Television and film
Latest action: action_date: 2017-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Interagency Cybersecurity Cooperation Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish the Interagency Communications Security Committee as an advisory committee to:</p> <ul> <li> review communications security reports from federal agencies and communications network providers (wireline or mobile telephone service, Internet access service, radio or television broadcasting, cable service, direct broadcast satellite service, or other communications services);</li> <li>recommend investigation by relevant agencies into any such report; and </li> <li>issue to Congress regular reports containing the results of any such investigation, the committee's findings following each communications security incident, and policy recommendations that may arise from each communications security incident.</li> </ul> <p>Every three months, agencies must submit to the committee a report of each communications security incident compromising a telecommunications system that resulted in: (1) government-held or private information being viewed or extracted, or (2) outside programming on an agency computer or electronic device. </p> <p>The bill requires communications networks to be treated as critical infrastructure and protected systems under the Homeland Security Act of 2002. The FCC is subject to the same requirements as the Department of Homeland Security concerning the protection of critical infrastructure information relating to communications networks that is voluntarily submitted to the FCC.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1340 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 2, 2017 Mr. Engel introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To require the Federal Communications Commission to establish an Interagency Communications Security Committee, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Interagency Cybersecurity Cooperation Act . 2. Interagency communications security committee (a) Establishment Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall establish an advisory committee to be known as the Interagency Communications Security Committee (in this section referred to as the Committee ). (b) Duties The Committee shall— (1) review each communications security report submitted to the Committee under subsection (d) or (f); (2) recommend investigation to relevant agencies into any such communications security report; and (3) issue regular reports containing the results of any such investigation, the Committee’s findings following each communications security incident, and policy recommendations that may arise from each communications security incident to the following: (A) The agencies represented on the Committee. (B) The Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives. (C) The Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. (D) The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. (E) The Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. (F) The Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives. (G) The Armed Services Committee of the Senate. (H) The Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives. (I) The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate. (J) The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives. (K) The Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate. (c) Membership The Committee shall be composed of 8 members, who shall each possess the appropriate access to classified information commensurate with the sensitivity of the classified information such members shall access in the course of service on the Committee. The members of the Committee shall include only— (1) one appointee from the Commission, who shall not be a member of the Commission, to be appointed by the Chair of the Commission, who shall serve as Chair of the Committee; (2) one appointee from the Department of Defense, to be appointed by the Secretary of Defense; (3) one appointee from the Department of Homeland Security, to be appointed by the Secretary of Homeland Security; (4) one appointee from the Department of Justice, to be appointed by the Attorney General of the United States; (5) one appointee from the intelligence community, to be appointed by the Director of National Intelligence; (6) one appointee from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to be appointed by the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; (7) one appointee from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, to be appointed by the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information; and (8) one appointee from the Office of Management and Budget, to be appointed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. (d) Public communications security reports The Committee shall consider communications security reports from communications network providers. (e) Application of critical infrastructure information protections For purposes of subtitle B of title II of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 131 et seq.)— (1) communications networks shall be treated as critical infrastructure and protected systems defined in sections 2(4) and 212(6), respectively, of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 101(4) ; 6 U.S.C. 131(6) ); and (2) with respect to critical infrastructure information relating to communications networks, the Federal Communications Commission (in addition to the Department of Homeland Security) shall be treated as a covered Federal agency defined in section 212(2) of such Act. (f) Agency communications security reports Not less frequently than every 3 months, the head of each agency shall submit to the Committee a report of each communications security incident for the previous 3 months. (g) Continuation of committee Section 14 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) does not apply to the Committee. (h) Definitions In this section: (1) Agency The term agency has the meaning given that term in section 3502 of title 44, United States Code. (2) Communications network In this section, the term communications network means a network for the provision of wireline or mobile telephone service, Internet access service, radio or television broadcasting, cable service, direct broadcast satellite service, or any other communications service. (3) Communications security incident The term communications security incident means any compromise, whether electronic or otherwise, of any telecommunications system that the agency has reason to believe— (A) resulted in Government-held or private information, including passwords and other similar means of access, being viewed or extracted; or (B) resulted in the presence of outside programming on an agency computer or other electronic device. (4) Communications Security Report The term communications security report means a description of a communications security incident or multiple communications security incidents referred to the Committee.