HR2659-119

Passed House

Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act

119th Congress Introduced Apr 7, 2025

Summary

What This Bill Does

Requires a CISA-led interagency task force, with the FBI as vice chair, to coordinate the federal response to state-sponsored cyber threats from the People's Republic of China, including Volt Typhoon, and to produce recurring public and classified assessments, recommendations, and an awareness-campaign plan focused on United States critical infrastructure.

Who Benefits and How

Critical-infrastructure owners and federal security planners could benefit from more coordinated cross-agency analysis of PRC cyber threats, clearer risk assessments, and recommendations for mitigation and awareness.

Who Bears the Burden and How

CISA, the FBI, and sector risk management agencies must staff and run the task force, prepare an initial report and then annual reports, and support planning around infrastructure disruption and owner-operator outreach.

Key Provisions

  • Requires establishment of a joint interagency task force within 120 days, chaired by CISA and vice chaired by the FBI, to coordinate against PRC state-sponsored cyber actors including Volt Typhoon.
  • Directs the task force to include subject matter experts and permits coordination with preexisting homeland security or intelligence efforts to avoid redundancy.
  • Requires an initial report within 540 days of task-force establishment and annual reports thereafter for five years.
  • Requires the reports to cover sector-specific risks, resource and authority needs, classified wartime disruption and mobility assessments, economic and social ramifications, recommendations, and a one-time owner-operator awareness-campaign plan.

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

Requires a CISA-led interagency task force, with the FBI as vice chair, to coordinate the federal response to state-sponsored cyber threats from the People's Republic of China, including Volt Typhoon, and to produce recurring public and classified assessments, recommendations, and an awareness-campaign plan focused on United States critical infrastructure.

Key Policy Areas

Cybersecurity, National Security, Critical Infrastructure

Primary Purpose

Requires a CISA-led interagency task force, with the FBI as vice chair, to coordinate the federal response to state-sponsored cyber threats from the People's Republic of China, including Volt Typhoon, and to produce recurring public and classified assessments, recommendations, and an awareness-campaign plan focused on United States critical infrastructure.

Policy Domains

Cybersecurity National Security Critical Infrastructure

Main Provisions

Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • Critical-infrastructure operators and national-security agencies that gain coordinated threat assessments and mitigation planning
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: eh

Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • CISA, the FBI, and sector risk management agencies that must support the long-running task force and reporting workload
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: eh

Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Legislative Progress

Passed House
Introduced Committee Passed
Nov 18, 2025

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland …

Nov 18, 2025

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …

Nov 18, 2025 (inferred)

Passed House (inferred from eh version)

Nov 17, 2025

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …

Nov 17, 2025

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …

Nov 17, 2025

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …

Nov 17, 2025

Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4692)

Nov 17, 2025

At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were …

Nov 17, 2025

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …

Nov 17, 2025

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4682-4685)

Stakeholder Effects

cui bono?

How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.

Federal Executive Agencies
3 mentions across 1 clause
-3 negative

Attorney General / Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security (CISA) - task force leadership and coordination, Sector Risk Management Agencies (e.g., DOE, DOT, EPA, Treasury)

Law Enforcement
1 mention across 1 clause
-1 negative

Federal Bureau of Investigation - task force vice-chair role

Technology
1 mention across 1 clause
+1 positive

Cybersecurity services and threat intelligence contractors

Utilities
1 mention across 1 clause
+1 positive

Critical infrastructure operators (utilities, transportation, communications, etc.)

Congress
1 mention across 1 clause
?1 uncertain

Congressional oversight committees (6 committees across House and Senate)

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sections analyzed
Full impact breakdown
House Roll #287

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act

Passed
402 Yea 8 Nay 23 Not Voting
Nov 18, 2025

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Cybersecurity National Security Critical Infrastructure

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