Ensuring America’s Critical Infrastructure Act

Bill: 117-hr-9337
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Jackson, Ronny [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2022-11-17
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Latest action: action_date: 2022-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-11-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Ensuring America's Critical Infrastructure Act</strong></p> <p>This bill expands the definition of <em>critical infrastructure</em> 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.</p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9337 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 17, 2022 Mr. Jackson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security A BILL To amend the USA PATRIOT Act to designate critical infrastructures, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring America’s Critical Infrastructure Act . 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. .