Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Pilot Program Act

Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Pilot Program Act

This bill reauthorizes through FY2025 the Cybersecurity Assistance Pilot Program that provides grants to states to assist small businesses in developing their cybersecurity infrastructure.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6812 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6812

  To authorize appropriations for the Cybersecurity Assistance Pilot 
  Program of the Small Business Administration for fiscal years 2023 
                 through 2025, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 22, 2022

Mr. Joyce of Ohio (for himself, Mr. Garbarino, Mr. Gottheimer, and Mr. 
   Morelle) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize appropriations for the Cybersecurity Assistance Pilot 
  Program of the Small Business Administration for fiscal years 2023 
                 through 2025, 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 ``Small Business Cybersecurity 
Assistance Pilot Program Act''.

SEC. 2. CYBERSECURITY ASSISTANCE PILOT PROGRAM AUTHORIZATION OF 
              APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
Small Business Administration $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 
through 2025 to make grants to States under the Cybersecurity 
Assistance Pilot Program established pursuant to title V of the 
Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2021 
(Public Law 116-260; 134 Stat. 1406).
    (b) Coordination.--The Administrator shall, in coordination with 
the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 
provide to recipients of grants under the Cybersecurity Assistance 
Pilot Program guidance on using such grants to provide businesses with, 
or to enable businesses to attain, the greatest degree of cybersecurity 
practicable, including information on cybersecurity best practices.
    (c) Annual Report.--Not later than 90 days after the end of each of 
fiscal years 2023 through 2025, the Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration shall submit to Congress a report on the Cybersecurity 
Assistance Pilot Program, including--
            (1) a list of States that have received a grant under the 
        pilot program;
            (2) whether each such State has submitted a cybersecurity 
        plan under section 2220A of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
        (15 U.S.C. 665g);
            (3) descriptions of how each such State used such grant, 
        including whether grant funds were provided directly to 
        individual businesses or used to carry out a program of the 
        State providing cybersecurity assistance to small business 
        concerns (as such term is defined under section 3 of the Small 
        Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632));
            (4) descriptions of the most pressing cybersecurity needs 
        of small business concerns; and
            (5) a description of how the Administrator is using the 
        Small Business Development Center Cyber Strategy developed 
        under section 1841(a) of the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense 
        Authorization Act to improve the cybersecurity assistance 
        provided to small business concerns under the pilot program.
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