US Congress Senate Bill 2384 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on May 22 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-05-22 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Pending: Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Deter Cyber Theft Act of 2014 - Requires the President to report annually to Congress on foreign countries that engage in economic and industrial espionage in cyberspace with respect to U.S. trade secrets or proprietary information. Requires each report to: (1) identify countries that engage in such espionage, including countries that facilitate, support, fail to prosecute, or otherwise permit such espionage; (2) specify the countries that engage in the most egregious forms of such espionage; and (3) describe actions taken and progress made by the President to decrease the prevalence of such espionage. Authorizes the President to block and prohibit transactions in property, and interests in property, of a foreign person the President determines knowingly requests, engages in, supports, facilitates, or benefits from the significant appropriation, through economic or industrial espionage in cyberspace, of technologies or proprietary information developed by U.S. persons if such property and interests in property: (1) are in the United States; (2) come within the United States; or (3) are, or come within, the possession or control of a U.S. person. Prohibits the President from imposing sanctions on the importation of goods under such authority.

Deter Cyber Theft Act of 2014

Sen. Carl Levin [D-MI]

Sen. Tom Coburn [R-OK]

Sen. John McCain [R-AZ]

Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-05-22	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
2014-05-22	Senate	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3297-3298)

SB884 (Related) 2013-05-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3166-3167)
HB3979 (Related) 2014-12-19 - Became Public Law No: 113-291.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2384/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s2384/BILLS-113s2384is.pdf