Hack Your State Department Act
Latest action · Sep 26, 2018 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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.
- IntroducedApr 5, 2018
- Passed HouseSep 25, 2018
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Hack Your State Department Act
This bill requires the Department of State to design, establish, and make publicly known a Vulnerability Disclosure Process to improve cybersecurity. The process requirements include: (1) identifying which information technology should be included, (2) providing a readily available means of reporting discovered security vulnerabilities, and (3) identifying the offices and position that will be responsible for addressing security vulnerability disclosures.
The bill requires the State Department to establish a bug bounty pilot program to provide compensation for reports of previously unidentified security vulnerabilities of its internet-facing information technology.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 5, 2018 to Jul 10, 2018; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-FL | Ted S. Yoho | Original | Apr 5, 2018 |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | May 8, 2018 | |
| D-AZ | Ruben Gallego | Jul 10, 2018 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Apr 5, 2018Markup May 9, 2018 |
| Senate | Foreign Relations Committee | Referred Sep 26, 2018 |
Actions 11
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 26, 2018Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- Sep 25, 2018Ms. Ros-Lehtinen moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 25, 2018Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8878-8880)
- Sep 25, 2018DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5433.
- Sep 25, 2018Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8878-8879)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H8878–H8880Text printed H8878 | Eliot L. Engel D-NY, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL, Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX, Ted Lieu D-CA | Sep 25, 2018 |
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.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- May 24, 2018H.R. 5433, Hack Your State Department ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on May 9, 2018
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 164, no. 55, April 5, 2018, page H3059.
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. 115-127 | BUILD ACT OF 2018; UNITED STATES-ISRAEL SECURITY ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2018; HACK YOUR STATE DEPARTMENT ACT; ENERGY DIPLOMACY ACT OF 2018; INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 2018; AND GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER AUTHORITIES ACT OF 2018340 pages | Foreign Affairs Committee | May 9, 2018 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Secretary of State to design and establish a Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP) to improve Department of State cybersecurity and a bug bounty program to identify and report vulnerabilities of internet-facing information technology of the Department of State, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Hack Your State Department Act
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Hack Your State Department Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.
- Computer security and identity theft
- Congressional oversight
- Department of State
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Intergovernmental relations
- Internet and video services
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Public contracts and procurement
- Science, Technology, Communications
Text 3
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 26, 2018Referred in Senate
- Sep 25, 2018Engrossed in House
- Apr 5, 2018Introduced 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.
