Critical Undersea Infrastructure Resilience Initiative Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Creates a Taiwan-focused critical undersea infrastructure resilience initiative, directs strategies against PRC gray-zone sabotage, requires sanctions for PRC persons responsible for undersea cable or infrastructure sabotage, mandates semiannual reports through 2032, and adds interagency contingency planning for a cross-Strait crisis.
Who Benefits and How
Taiwan benefits from U.S.-led planning, partner coordination, and resilience work for undersea cables, subsea energy infrastructure, and other seabed systems vulnerable to sabotage. U.S. Indo-Pacific planners benefit from contingency planning for a cross-Strait crisis and better reporting on critical infrastructure interference. Undersea cable operators and subsea energy operators benefit if deterrence, hardening, repair capacity, and international cooperation reduce sabotage risk. Allies and like-minded partners benefit from a shared strategy against PRC gray-zone tactics.
Who Bears the Burden and How
State Department infrastructure-security staff, Defense planners, Homeland Security infrastructure staff, Treasury sanctions staff, Commerce telecommunications staff, and intelligence analysts must coordinate the initiative, sanctions, strategies, and reports. PRC persons responsible for sabotage face sanctions. Companies or vessels linked to undersea infrastructure interference face greater scrutiny. Taiwan and partner governments may need to coordinate sensitive contingency planning and infrastructure data.
Key Provisions
- Defines critical undersea infrastructure, including subsea cables, pipelines, and seabed equipment.
- Requires a Taiwan Critical Undersea Infrastructure Resilience Initiative within 360 days.
- Directs strategies to counter PRC gray-zone sabotage tactics.
- Requires sanctions on PRC persons responsible for critical undersea infrastructure sabotage.
- Requires semiannual reports through 2032 on interference incidents, repairs, vulnerabilities, and PRC activities.
- Establishes interagency contingency planning for a cross-Strait crisis.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Creates a Taiwan-focused critical undersea infrastructure resilience initiative, directs strategies against PRC gray-zone sabotage, requires sanctions for PRC persons responsible for undersea cable or infrastructure sabotage, mandates semiannual reports through 2032, and adds interagency contingency planning for a cross-Strait crisis.
Key Policy Areas
Taiwan, Critical Infrastructure, Sanctions, National Security
Primary Purpose
Creates a Taiwan-focused critical undersea infrastructure resilience initiative, directs strategies against PRC gray-zone sabotage, requires sanctions for PRC persons responsible for undersea cable or infrastructure sabotage, mandates semiannual reports through 2032, and adds interagency contingency planning for a cross-Strait crisis.
Policy Domains
House resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Taiwan
- U.S. Indo-Pacific planners
- Undersea cable operators
- Telecommunications providers
- Energy utilities
- Allied governments
Identified Costs
- State Department
- Defense Department
- Homeland Security Department
- Treasury Department
- PRC sabotage actors
- Taiwan officials
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedPlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. …
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch with an …
Reported by Mr. Risch, with an amendment and an amendment …
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Curtis (for himself and Ms. Rosen) introduced the following …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Allied governments, State Department infrastructure-security staff, State Department sanctions staff
Positive-direction: Allied governments
Negative-direction: State Department infrastructure-security staff, State Department sanctions staff, Treasury sanctions staff
Agency legal staff, Congressional oversight committees
Positive-direction: Congressional oversight committees
Negative-direction: Agency legal staff
Intelligence analysts, U.S. Indo-Pacific planners
Positive-direction: U.S. Indo-Pacific planners
Negative-direction: Intelligence analysts
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "president"
- → President
- "secretary_state"
- → Secretary of State
- "secretary_treasury"
- → Secretary of the Treasury
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