Better Cybercrime Metrics Act
Latest action · Dec 8, 2021 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
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.
- IntroducedAug 6, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Better Cybercrime Metrics Act
This bill establishes various requirements to improve the collection of data related to cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime (cybercrime). Among the requirements
- the Department of Justice (DOJ) must enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to develop a taxonomy for categorizing different types of cybercrime faced by individuals and businesses;
- DOJ must establish a category in the National Incident-Based Reporting System for collecting cybercrime reports from federal, state, and local officials;
- DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Bureau of the Census must include questions about cybercrime in the annual National Crime Victimization Survey; and
- the Government Accountability Office must assess the effectiveness of reporting mechanisms for cybercrime and disparities in reporting cybercrime data and other types of crime data.
Cosponsors 18
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Aug 6, 2021 to Nov 18, 2021; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NY | Andrew R. Garbarino | Original | Aug 6, 2021 |
| R-UT | Blake D. Moore | Original | Aug 6, 2021 |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Original | Aug 6, 2021 |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Aug 17, 2021 | |
| D-HI | Ed Case | Sep 3, 2021 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Sep 3, 2021 | |
| D-MD | David J. Trone | Oct 5, 2021 | |
| D-NJ | Josh Gottheimer | Oct 5, 2021 | |
| D-MD | Kweisi Mfume | Oct 5, 2021 | |
| D-MD | Anthony G. Brown | Oct 8, 2021 | |
| R-TX | Van Taylor | Oct 8, 2021 | |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Oct 19, 2021 | |
| R-NE | Don Bacon | Oct 19, 2021 | |
| R-FL | Maria Elvira Salazar | Oct 19, 2021 | |
| D-TX | Colin Z. Allred | Oct 22, 2021 | |
| R-SC | Tom Rice | Oct 22, 2021 | |
| R-OH | David P. Joyce | Oct 28, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Eric Swalwell | Nov 18, 2021 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Aug 6, 2021Markup Dec 8, 2021 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 8, 2021Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Dec 8, 2021Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Aug 6, 2021Introduced in House
- Aug 6, 2021Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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
- Jan 27, 2022H.R. 4977, Better Cybercrime Metrics ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on December 8, 2021
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 141, August 6, 2021, page H4321.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2629 | Better Cybercrime Metrics Act | Identical bill | May 5, 2022 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To establish cybercrime reporting mechanisms, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Better Cybercrime Metrics Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Aug 6, 2021Introduced 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.
