# H.R. 2659 (119th): Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act The bill creates a joint interagency task force to facilitate agency collaboration on efforts to respond to Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors, including Volt Typhoon

Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act The bill creates a joint interagency task force to facilitate agency collaboration on efforts to respond to Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors, including Volt Typhoon. The task force must be established and led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The task force must facilitate collaboration and coordination among the Sector Risk Management Agencies (SRMAs) specified in the President's National Security Memorandum- 22 (e.g., the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Agriculture) to detect, analyze, and respond to Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors by ensuring that such agencies’ actions are aligned and mutually reinforcing. The bill directs DHS, CISA, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and specified SRMAs to provide the task force with analysis, inspections, audits, and other relevant information necessary for the task force to carry out its responsibilities. The production and use of information must comply with all applicable statutes, regulations, and executive orders, and task force members must have appropriate security clearances to access classified information. The task force must provide annual reports and briefings to Congress detailing its assessment of cyber threats and recommendations to improve the detection and mitigation of the cybersecurity threat posed by Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors. The first report must be provided no later than 540 days after the establishment of the task force, and additional reports must be provided annually thereafter for six years.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: china_cyber_threats. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: critical_infrastructure. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: cybersecurity. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: national_security. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: state_threats. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: war_funding. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: good. A yea supports the bill. A nay is the penalized direction when the tag is scored as a protection. A yea on a credit tag is a credit.
Roll 287: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill's stated purpose is to detect and respond to hostile state-sponsored cyber operations against U.S. infrastructure, which restrains a concrete external harm. It does not expand surveillance of citizens, fund abortion, or advance any named moral evil, and it is bounded by existing legal and clearance requirements. The moral weight is modest because the measure is primarily coordinating governance.
Theological note: The measure addresses the protection of civil order and of critical infrastructure against a named hostile foreign cyber threat, which bears on the duty of government to restrain harm to the common good. Its relevance lies in defending citizens from external aggression through coordinated, lawful governance rather than in any direct moral act. This is an issue-relevance note only, not a final candidate judgment.

## Recorded votes

Roll 287: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 402 · Nay 8 · Other 23.

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