Sec. 513. Designation of state sponsors of ransomware and reporting requirements
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall— designate as a state sponsor of ransomware any country the government of which the Secretary has determined has provided support for ransomware demand schemes (including by providing safe haven for individuals engaged in such schemes); submit to Congress a report listing the countries designated under subparagraph (A); and in making designations under subparagraph (A), take into consideration the report submitted to Congress under section 514(c)(1).
The President shall impose with respect to each state sponsor of ransomware designated under paragraph (1)(A) the sanctions and penalties imposed with respect to a state sponsor of terrorism. In this subsection, the term state sponsor of terrorism means a country the government of which the Secretary of State has determined has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism, for purposes of— section 1754(c)(1)(A)(i) of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 ( 50 U.S.C. 4813(c)(1)(A)(i) ); section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2371 ); section 40(d) of the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2780(d) ); or any other provision of law.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit a report to Congress that describes, for each of the 5 fiscal years immediately preceding the date of such report, the number and geographic locations of individuals, groups, and entities subject to sanctions imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control who were subsequently determined to have been involved in a ransomware demand scheme. The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall— submit a report, with a classified annex, to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate , the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate , the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives , and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives that identifies the country of origin of foreign-based ransomware attacks; and make the report described in subparagraph
(A)(excluding the classified annex) available to the public. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall issue a report that outlines the authorities available to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Secret Service, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control to respond to foreign-based ransomware attacks.
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