H.R. 10777: National Coordination Center and Commercial Cyber Capabilities Codification Act

This bill would make certain existing executive actions on cybercrime and related security issues into law. In plain terms, it would take three specific presidential directives and give them the same legal force as an act of Congress.

What the bill does

• It creates a short title: the National Coordination Center and Commercial Cyber Capabilities Codification Act.
• It says that certain “covered orders or memoranda” would have the force and effect of law.
• Those covered actions are:
  • Executive Order 14390, which concerns combating cybercrime, fraud, and predatory schemes against American citizens;
  • Section 6 of Executive Order 14159, which concerns protecting the American people against invasion;
  • a National Security Presidential Memorandum on expanding capabilities to combat transnational cyber-enabled crime.

What that means in practice

Rather than leaving these policies only as executive branch directions, the bill would lock them in as statutory law. That means future administrations would generally have to follow them unless Congress changes the law again. The bill itself does not spell out all of the policy details; instead, it incorporates the cited executive actions by reference.

Because the bill is framed as a codification measure, its main effect is to preserve and strengthen the legal status of those existing policies. The bill does not, on its face, create a new program description in the text provided, but it would make the referenced anti-cybercrime and related security policies legally binding.

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