[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 70 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 70

   To amend title 32, United States Code, to authorize cybersecurity 
 operations and missions to protect critical infrastructure by members 
    of the National Guard in connection with training or other duty.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 27, 2021

Ms. Hassan (for herself and Mr. Cornyn) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 32, United States Code, to authorize cybersecurity 
 operations and missions to protect critical infrastructure by members 
    of the National Guard in connection with training or other duty.

    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 Guard Cybersecurity Support 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CYBERSECURITY OPERATIONS AND MISSIONS TO PROTECT CRITICAL 
              INFRASTRUCTURE BY MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD IN 
              CONNECTION WITH TRAINING OR OTHER DUTY.

    Section 502(f)(1) of title 32, United States Code, is amended by 
adding after the flush matter at the end the following new sentence: 
``Such training or other duty may include cybersecurity operations or 
missions undertaken by the member's unit at the request of the Governor 
of the State concerned to protect critical infrastructure (as that term 
is defined in the Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001 (42 
U.S.C. 5195c)).''.
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