S 904
115th Congress
Senate
Crime and Law Enforcement
Computer security and identity theft
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Homeland security
Judges
Law enforcement officers
Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act of 2017
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 7, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Apr 7, 2017
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act of 2017
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a National Computer Forensics Institute, to be operated by the U.S. Secret Service.
The institute:
- shall disseminate homeland security information related to the investigation and prevention of cyber and electronic crime and related threats;
- shall educate, train, and equip state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges;
- shall ensure that timely, actionable, and relevant expertise and homeland security information related to cyber and electronic crime and related threats is shared with such officers and prosecutors;
- may provide such officers with computer equipment, hardware, software, manuals, and tools necessary to conduct cyber and electronic crime and related threat investigations and computer and mobile device forensic examinations; and
- shall facilitate the expansion of the network of Electronic Crime Task Forces of the Secret Service through the addition of such officers educated and trained at the institute.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1