Cyber Security Education and Federal Workforce Enhancement Act
Latest action · Apr 29, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 6, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Cyber Security Education and Federal Workforce Enhancement Act
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) an Office of Cybersecurity Education and Awareness Branch to make recommendations to DHS regarding: (1) recruitment of information assurance, cybersecurity, and computer security professionals; (2) grants, training programs, and other support for kindergarten through grade 12, secondary, and post-secondary computer security education programs; (3) guest lecturer programs in which professional computer security experts lecture computer science students at institutions of higher education; (4) youth training programs for students to work in part-time or summer positions at federal agencies; and (5) programs to support underrepresented minorities in computer security fields with programs at minority-serving institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, Native American colleges, Asian-American institutions, and rural colleges and universities.
Directs DHS to provide matching funds to local educational agencies for after-school programs dedicated to science, technology, engineering, and math.
Provides for the establishment of:
- a Research K-12 Science and Technology Education Board of Advisors to make recommendations regarding K-12 science and technology education domestically and internationally;
- a Computing and Information Security Post-Secondary Education Working Group to assist DHS in developing voluntary guidelines for federal civil agency training programs, certification authorities, and accreditation bodies;
- a Post-Secondary Laboratory Research Development Task Force to recommend best practices for baseline equipment, skilled instruction, and certification needed by college and university laboratory facilities;
- an Office of Computing and Information Security Professional's Mentoring Program for outreach to institutions of higher education, critical infrastructure owners, and federal agencies to promote professional mentors for students;
- a program under which DHS may designate colleges and universities as Centers of Academic Computer and Information Assurance Distinction;
- programs in conjunction with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to award grants to institutions of higher education for cybersecurity and information security professional development programs and degrees; and
- an E-Security Fellows Program for state, local, tribal, and private sector officials to participate in DHS's National Cybersecurity Division.
Authorizes DHS to make grants to post-secondary institutions to equip computer laboratories for teaching and research purposes.
Requires the NSF to report to Congress regarding the causes of the high dropout rates of women and minority students enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2015 |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Apr 29, 2015 | |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred Apr 29, 2015 | |
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2015 |
| Research and Technology Subcommittee | Referred Feb 19, 2015 | |
| House | Homeland Security Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2015 |
| Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee | Referred Jan 23, 2015 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 29, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
- Apr 29, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
- Feb 19, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
- Jan 23, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies.
- Jan 6, 2015Introduced in House
- Jan 6, 2015Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Homeland Security, 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.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 1, January 6, 2015, page H44.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 114-71 | ENHANCING PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE CAPABILITIES TO ADDRESS CYBER THREATS60 pages | Homeland Security Committee | May 24, 2016 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 935 | Cyber Security Education and Federal Workforce Enhancement Act | Reintroduced Bill | Apr 25, 2017 |
| HR 1981 | Cyber Security Education and Federal Workforce Enhancement Act | Reintroduced Bill | Apr 25, 2017 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To codify an office within the Department of Homeland Security with the mission of strengthening the capacity of the agency to attract and retain highly trained computer and information security professionals, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Cyber Security Education and Federal Workforce Enhancement Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Emergency Management.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Advisory bodies
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Homeland Security
- Education programs funding
- Educational facilities and institutions
- Educational technology and distance education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency Management
- Employment and training programs
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government studies and investigations
- Higher education
- Homeland security
- Minority education
- Public-private cooperation
- Research administration and funding
- Science and engineering education
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 6, 2015Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
