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S. 884: Deter Cyber Theft Act

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S. 884: Deter Cyber Theft Act

113th Congress · introduced 2013-05-07 · Foreign Trade and International Finance · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3166-3167)

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-05-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3166-3167) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Deter Cyber Theft Act

Plain summary

Deter Cyber Theft Act - Requires the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to annually report to specified congressional committees on foreign countries that engage in economic and industrial espionage in cyberspace with respect to U.S. trade secrets or proprietary information. Requires each report to identify countries that engage in such espionage as well as countries that engage in the most egregious forms of such espionage. Directs the President to exclude from entry into the United States any article produced or exported by an entity identified within any such report, as long as the President determines that such exclusion is warranted for the enforcement of intellectual property rights or to protect the integrity of the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain.

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Official text

Deter Cyber Theft Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI] · 3 cosponsors

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-s884 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113