GRID CYBERSECURITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT

SPONSORS

• Ami Bera (sponsor)
• Eddie Johnson
• Daniel Lipinski
• Suzanne Bonamici
• Jacky Rosen
• Marc Veasey
• Ed Perlmutter
• Colleen Hanabusa

This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to develop an initiative to mitigate the consequences on the electric grid from the results of cyberattacks by increasing cybersecurity capabilities of the electricity sector.

Additionally, DOE must collaborate with other federal agencies, state agencies, and the private sector to develop guidance for research and demonstration activities to improve cybersecurity capabilities of the electricity sector.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology must develop voluntary cybersecurity training standards that minimize duplication and maintain a public database of cybersecurity training programs.

ACTIONS

• 10/25/17: Introduced in House
• 10/25/17: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and Energy and Commerce, 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. Actions By: House of Representatives

ACTIONS

• 11/01/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection. Action By: Committee on Homeland Security