H.R. 3403: Cyber VICTIM Act
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H.R. 3403: Cyber VICTIM Act
115th Congress · introduced 2017-07-26 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2017-07-26 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Cyber VICTIM Act
Plain summary
Cyber Valuing Individual Cybersecurity Through Interagency Measures Act or the Cyber VICTIM Act This bill requires the President to designate a federal official as the interagency cyber victim response coordinator. The interagency cyber victim coordinator must respond to data breaches and other cyber attacks on federal employees. Additionally, the coordinator must: (1) coordinate activities of the federal government relating to incidents of data breaches; (2) chair an interagency working group, consisting of appropriate personnel of the federal government and responding to cyber attacks against federal employees; (3) ensure sufficient representation of each federal agency at the interagency working group; and (4) develop processes and procedures to inform victims of efforts to mitigate damage from data breaches and prosecute perpetrators. The President must develop a comprehensive plan for the U.S. response to data breaches of personal information of federal employees.
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Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4] · 4 cosponsors
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Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ro Khanna (D-CA)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115hr3403.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/hr>
Record fed-us-cong115-hr3403 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115