[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5877 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5877

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the United States-Israel 
   Strategic Partnership Act of 2014 to promote cooperative homeland 
security research and antiterrorism programs relating to cybersecurity, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 14, 2016

 Mr. Ratcliffe (for himself and Mr. Langevin) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in 
   addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the United States-Israel 
   Strategic Partnership Act of 2014 to promote cooperative homeland 
security research and antiterrorism programs relating to cybersecurity, 
                        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 ``United States-Israel Advanced 
Research Partnership Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. COOPERATIVE HOMELAND SECURITY RESEARCH AND ANTITERRORISM 
              PROGRAMS RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY.

    (a) Homeland Security Act of 2002.--Section 317 of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 195c) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (g) and (h) as subsections 
        (h) and (i), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(g) Cybersecurity.--As part of the international cooperative 
activities authorized in this section, the Under Secretary, in 
coordination with the Department of State and appropriate Federal 
officials, may enter into cooperative research activities with Israel 
to strengthen preparedness against cyber threats and enhance 
capabilities in cybersecurity.''.
    (b) United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014.--
Subsection (c) of section 7 of the United States-Israel Strategic 
Partnership Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-296; 22 U.S.C. 8606) is 
amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``Pilot'';
            (2) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
        ``pilot'';
            (3) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (4) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) cybersecurity.''.
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