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H.R. 4977: Better Cybercrime Metrics Act

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H.R. 4977: Better Cybercrime Metrics Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-08-06 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-08-06 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Spanberger, Abigail Davis [D-VA-7] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Better Cybercrime Metrics Act

Plain 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.

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Official text

Better Cybercrime Metrics Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Spanberger, Abigail Davis [D-VA-7] · 18 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 4977, Better Cybercrime Metrics Act (2022-01-27)

Cosponsors on this site

Blake D. Moore (R-UT), Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ed Case (D-HI), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Don Bacon (R-NE), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), David P. Joyce (R-OH)

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Record fed-us-cong117-hr4977 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117