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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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
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