Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Introduced
In Committee
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Passed Chamber
Enacted
K-12 Cybersecurity Act of 2019 This bill requires the Office of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (OCIS) to study the cybersecurity risks facing K-12 educational institutions and develop recommendations that include cybersecurity guidelines designed to assist such institutions in facing those risks. The use of such recommendations shall be voluntary. The study shall include the challenges that such institutions face in securing (1) information systems owned, leased, or relied upon by those institutions; and (2) sensitive student and employee records. OCIS shall (1) develop an online training toolkit designed for officials at K-12 educational institutions to educate the officials about, and provide strategies to implement, the recommendations; and (2) make available on the Department of Homeland Security website the study's findings, the guidelines developed, and the toolkit.
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Education
Computers and information technologyComputer security and identity theftEducational facilities and institutionsElementary and secondary educationGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsPersonnel recordsStudent records
K–12 Cybersecurity Act of 2019
USA116th CongressS-3033| Senate
| Updated: 12/12/2019
K-12 Cybersecurity Act of 2019 This bill requires the Office of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (OCIS) to study the cybersecurity risks facing K-12 educational institutions and develop recommendations that include cybersecurity guidelines designed to assist such institutions in facing those risks. The use of such recommendations shall be voluntary. The study shall include the challenges that such institutions face in securing (1) information systems owned, leased, or relied upon by those institutions; and (2) sensitive student and employee records. OCIS shall (1) develop an online training toolkit designed for officials at K-12 educational institutions to educate the officials about, and provide strategies to implement, the recommendations; and (2) make available on the Department of Homeland Security website the study's findings, the guidelines developed, and the toolkit.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Education
Introduced
In Committee
On Floor
Passed Chamber
Enacted
Computers and information technologyComputer security and identity theftEducational facilities and institutionsElementary and secondary educationGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsPersonnel recordsStudent records