[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1997 Introduced in House (IH)]
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115th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1997
To encourage United States-Ukraine cybersecurity cooperation and
require a report regarding such cooperation, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 6, 2017
Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. Fitzpatrick)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs
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A BILL
To encourage United States-Ukraine cybersecurity cooperation and
require a report regarding such cooperation, 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 ``Ukraine Cybersecurity Cooperation
Act of 2017''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The United States established diplomatic relations with
Ukraine in 1992, following its independence from the Soviet
Union.
(2) The United States attaches great importance to the
success of Ukraine's transition to a modern democratic country
with a flourishing market economy.
(3) In 2014, days before the Presidential election in
Ukraine, there took place a failed attempt to destroy the
election system software through a cyber attack.
(4) In December 2015, Ukrainian power companies experienced
unscheduled power outages impacting a large number of customers
in Ukraine from a cyber attack.
(5) In response to cyber attacks in Ukraine, Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko emphasized the need for a National
Cyber Security System declaring that cyberspace has turned into
another battlefield 101 for State independence.
(6) As a result of the December 2015 cyberattack, the
United States sent interagency teams that included
representatives from the Department of Energy, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, and the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation to Ukraine to look into the safety of
their infrastructure and to help with investigations. The visit
was followed up by another interagency delegation to Ukraine in
March 2016, and a May 2016 United States-Ukrainian tabletop
exercise on mitigating attacks against Ukraine's
infrastructure.
(7) As noted by former Deputy Secretary of Commerce, Bruce
Andrews, ``Cybersecurity is a perfect example of a sector in
which we can work together to increase national and economic
security, create jobs, and provide mutual prosperity for both
our economies. Together I am confident that we can provide
leadership to enhance cybersecurity capabilities across Central
and Southeast Europe.''.
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY.
It is the policy of the United States to--
(1) reaffirm the commitment of the United States to the
United States-Ukraine Charter on Strategic Partnership, which
highlights the importance of the bilateral relationship and
outlines enhanced cooperation in the areas of defense,
security, economics and trade, energy security, democracy, and
cultural exchanges;
(2) reaffirm the commitment of the United States to support
cooperation between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) and Ukraine;
(3) reaffirm the commitment of the United States to provide
financial, economic, and technical assistance to Ukraine to
achieve its goals for the Ukrainian Government to make progress
on reforms and anticorruption initiatives;
(4) reaffirm the commitment of the United States to the
Budapest Memorandum on security assurances; and
(5) assist the Ukrainian Government to improve its
cybersecurity strategy.
SEC. 4. UNITED STATES ACTIONS TO ASSIST UKRAINE TO IMPROVE ITS
CYBERSECURITY AND PROTECT AMERICAN INTERESTS.
(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that the
Secretary of State should take the following actions, commensurate with
United States interests, to assist Ukraine to improve its
cybersecurity:
(1) Provide Ukraine such support as may be necessary to
increase most advanced security protection on government
computers, particularly such systems that defend the critical
infrastructure of Ukraine.
(2) Provide Ukraine support in reducing reliance on Russian
technology.
(3) Assist Ukraine to build capacity, expand cybersecurity
information sharing, and cooperate in international response
efforts.
(b) Report on Ukraine's Cybersecurity.--Not later than 180 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State
shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a
report on the status of United States cybersecurity cooperation with
Ukraine to seek new areas for collaboration and assistance, as well as
pursue cooperation with regional partners and organizations to address
shared cyber challenges. Such report shall also include information
relating to the following:
(1) An update on the U.S. Department of Energy's efforts to
establish a United States-Ukraine Stakeholder Working Group as
an element of their work with Ukraine to develop a Ukrainian
Cyber Security Program.
(2) An assessment capability to establish joint United
States and Ukrainian participation to--
(A) conduct cybersecurity assessments of existing
Ukrainian Government, military, critical
infrastructure, and banking systems in order to
identify critical vulnerabilities;
(B) recommend mitigation strategies relating to
such assessments;
(C) combat cybercrime, including through training
workshops and joint tabletop exercises covering
priority cybersecurity scenarios; and
(D) establish an information security awareness
program.
(3) An update of progress on NATO's agreement to establish
an Incident Management Center to monitor cyber security events
and laboratories to investigate cybersecurity incidents.
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