Bill Text: IL HB5399 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Information Security Improvement Act. Provides that no State agency shall use any software platform developed, in whole or in part, by Kaspersky Lab or any entity of which Kaspersky Lab holds majority ownership. Provides that the Department of Innovation and Technology shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the provisions. Provides legislative findings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-18 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5399 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5399-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5399 Introduced , by Rep. Amy Grant - Grant Wehrli SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1375/5-30 new
Amends the Illinois Information Security Improvement Act. Provides that no State agency shall use any software platform developed, in whole or in part, by Kaspersky Lab or any entity of which Kaspersky Lab holds majority ownership. Provides that the Department of Innovation and Technology shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the provisions. Provides legislative findings.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Legislative Findings. The General hereby finds
and declares that:
(1) The State of Illinois faces constantly evolving
threats to its information technology systems. These
treats can range from individuals to state or
state-sponsored actors including, China, Iran, North
Korea, and Russia. To counter this threat, the State of
Illinois needs to contract with outside vendors to obtain
the latest in cybersecurity software. In addition to being
effective, it is equally important that the software
obtained can be relied upon not to provide a hostile actor
access to the State's information technology systems.
(2) Kaspersky Lab is a Russian cybersecurity company
founded in 1997 by Eugene Kaspersky, and based in Moscow,
Russia. The company's founder, Eugene Kaspersky, also has a
history with Russian intelligence activities and was
educated at the Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School.
(3) Under Russian law, their Federal Security Service,
the successor to the KGB, can compel a telecommunications
business to install software to assist in its operations
and can assign officers to work at a company.

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(4) The federal Government has already prohibited
Kaspersky Lab's products from being used by the federal
Government in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.
When 6 heads of United States intelligence agencies were
asked during a United States Senate Committee on
Intelligence hearing if they would install Kaspersky
software on their own computers, all replied no.
(5) Because the federal government has determined that
the use of software obtained from Kaspersky Lab would be a
national security threat, use of Kaspersky Lab software
would also be a threat to the security of the State of
Illinois.
Section 5. The Illinois Information Security Improvement
Act is amended by adding Section 5-30 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1375/5-30 new)
Sec. 5-30. Cybersecurity software prohibited. No State
agency shall use any software platform developed, in whole or
in part, by Kaspersky Lab or any entity of which Kaspersky Lab
holds majority ownership. The Department shall adopt rules as
necessary to implement this Section.