[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1340 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1340

   To require the Federal Communications Commission to establish an 
 Interagency Communications Security Committee, and for other purposes.


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                    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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Federal Communications Commission to establish an 
 Interagency Communications Security Committee, 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 ``Interagency Cybersecurity 
Cooperation Act''.

SEC. 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.
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