[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5179 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5179

 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to coordinate a National 
   Cyber Hacking Competition for high school students, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 2018

 Ms. Barragan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to coordinate a National 
   Cyber Hacking Competition for high school students, 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 ``National Cyber Hacking Competition 
for our Youth Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPETITION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Department of Homeland 
Security shall coordinate a National Cyber Hacking Competition for 
students at secondary schools, which shall be held each year among 
students in each congressional district. The Secretary shall coordinate 
with Members of Congress to promote the Competition with appropriate 
outreach to local educational agencies.
    (b) Coordination.--The Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
consultation with local educational agencies, shall establish rules and 
guidelines for the implementation of the competition described in 
subsection (a). The Secretary shall post such rules and guidelines on a 
publically-accessible webpage of the Department of Homeland Security.
    (c) Purposes.--The purposes of the Competition include the 
following:
            (1) Promoting and developing a 21st century cybersecurity 
        workforce for high school students by increasing awareness of 
        emerging technologies to combat cybersecurity risks.
            (2) Engaging students and State and local governments to 
        collaborate with industries to strengthen and secure 
        information systems and prevent vulnerabilities.
            (3) Advancing cybersecurity's role in preventing large 
        scale data theft, scams, and malicious information operations 
        that affect millions of Americans.
            (4) Addressing best practices and privacy tools to combat 
        cybersecurity risks for American households, State and local 
        governments, and industries connected online.
            (5) Actively engaging students from communities that are 
        traditionally under-represented or low performing in science, 
        technology, engineering, or mathematics.
            (6) Initiating innovative policymaking by connecting State 
        and local governments to secondary school students on new and 
        emerging cybersecurity risks and prevention.
    (d) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this Act may be construed as 
requiring secondary schools to participate in the Competition.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Competition.--The term ``Competition'' means the 
        National Cyber Hacking Competition under this section.
            (2) Cybersecurity risk.--The term ``cybersecurity risk'' 
        has the meaning given such term in section 227 of the Homeland 
        Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 148).
            (3) Information system.--The term ``information system'' 
        has the meaning given such term in section 3502 of title 44, 
        United States Code.
            (4) Local educational agency.--The term ``local educational 
        agency'' has the meaning given such term in section 8101 of the 
        Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
        7801).
            (5) Secondary school.--The term ``secondary school'' has 
        the meaning given such term in section 8101 of the Elementary 
        and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
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