[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5881 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5881

   To require the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on the 
    effects on small businesses of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model 
  Certification framework of the Department of Defense, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 2021

 Mr. Phillips (for himself and Ms. Van Duyne) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on the 
    effects on small businesses of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model 
  Certification framework of the Department of Defense, 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 ``Transparency in Cybersecurity 
Initiatives for Small Contractors Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON CYBERSECURITY MATURITY MODEL CERTIFICATION EFFECTS ON 
              SMALL BUSINESS.

    Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Committee on Armed 
Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Small 
Business of the House of Representatives a report on the effects of the 
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification framework of the Department 
of Defense on small business concerns (as defined under section 3 of 
the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632)), including--
            (1) the estimated costs of complying with each level of the 
        framework;
            (2) any decrease in the number of small business concerns 
        that are part of the defense industrial base resulting from the 
        implementation and use of the framework; and
            (3) an explanation of how the Department of Defense will 
        mitigate the negative effects to small business concerns that 
        are part of the defense industrial base resulting from the 
        implementation and use of the framework.
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