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

USA115th CongressHR-1340| House 
| Updated: 3/17/2017
Eliot L. Engel

Eliot L. Engel

Democratic Representative

New York

Communications and Technology Subcommittee, Energy and Commerce Committee, Oversight and Government Reform Committee

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Interagency Cybersecurity Cooperation Act This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish the Interagency Communications Security Committee as an advisory committee to: review communications security reports from federal agencies and communications network providers (wireline or mobile telephone service, Internet access service, radio or television broadcasting, cable service, direct broadcast satellite service, or other communications services); recommend investigation by relevant agencies into any such report; and issue to Congress 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. Every three months, agencies must submit to the committee a report of each communications security incident compromising a telecommunications system that resulted in: (1) government-held or private information being viewed or extracted, or (2) outside programming on an agency computer or electronic device. The bill requires communications networks to be treated as critical infrastructure and protected systems under the Homeland Security Act of 2002. The FCC is subject to the same requirements as the Department of Homeland Security concerning the protection of critical infrastructure information relating to communications networks that is voluntarily submitted to the FCC.
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Timeline
Mar 2, 2017
Introduced in House
Mar 2, 2017
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.
Mar 17, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
  • March 2, 2017
    Introduced in House


  • March 2, 2017
    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.


  • March 17, 2017
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

Science, Technology, Communications

Related Bills

  • HR 115-4986: RAY BAUM'S Act of 2018
Advisory bodiesBroadcasting, cable, digital technologiesComputer security and identity theftCongressional oversightExecutive agency funding and structureFederal Communications Commission (FCC)Government studies and investigationsInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaTelephone and wireless communicationTelevision and film

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

USA115th CongressHR-1340| House 
| Updated: 3/17/2017
Interagency Cybersecurity Cooperation Act This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish the Interagency Communications Security Committee as an advisory committee to: review communications security reports from federal agencies and communications network providers (wireline or mobile telephone service, Internet access service, radio or television broadcasting, cable service, direct broadcast satellite service, or other communications services); recommend investigation by relevant agencies into any such report; and issue to Congress 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. Every three months, agencies must submit to the committee a report of each communications security incident compromising a telecommunications system that resulted in: (1) government-held or private information being viewed or extracted, or (2) outside programming on an agency computer or electronic device. The bill requires communications networks to be treated as critical infrastructure and protected systems under the Homeland Security Act of 2002. The FCC is subject to the same requirements as the Department of Homeland Security concerning the protection of critical infrastructure information relating to communications networks that is voluntarily submitted to the FCC.
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Timeline
Mar 2, 2017
Introduced in House
Mar 2, 2017
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.
Mar 17, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
  • March 2, 2017
    Introduced in House


  • March 2, 2017
    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.


  • March 17, 2017
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Eliot L. Engel

Eliot L. Engel

Democratic Representative

New York

Communications and Technology Subcommittee, Energy and Commerce Committee, Oversight and Government Reform Committee

Science, Technology, Communications

Related Bills

  • HR 115-4986: RAY BAUM'S Act of 2018
  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Advisory bodiesBroadcasting, cable, digital technologiesComputer security and identity theftCongressional oversightExecutive agency funding and structureFederal Communications Commission (FCC)Government studies and investigationsInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaTelephone and wireless communicationTelevision and film