[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5679 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5679

 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to limit to five years the 
term of the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection 
 Agency of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 2020

Mr. Katko (for himself, Mr. Richmond, and Mr. Langevin) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
 Security, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, 
and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to limit to five years the 
term of the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection 
 Agency of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``CISA Director Reform Act''.

SEC. 2. CISA DIRECTOR TERM LIMITATION.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (1) of section 2202(b) of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 652(b)) is amended by inserting at the 
end the following new sentence: ``Each Director shall serve for a term 
of five years.''.
    (b) Transition Rules.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and apply 
beginning--
            (1) with the confirmation of the new Director of the 
        Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency of the 
        Department of Homeland Security, or
            (2) on January 1, 2021,
whichever comes first.
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