HR 4977 · 117th Congress · Crime and Law Enforcement

Better Cybercrime Metrics Act

Introduced 2021-08-06· Sponsored by Rep. Spanberger, Abigail Davis [D-VA-7]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
2
Committee
3
House Vote
4
Senate
5
Enacted
Latest: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.(2021-12-08)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Better Cybercrime Metrics Act This bill establishes various requirements to improve the collection of data related to cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime (cybercrime). Among the requirements the Department of Justice (DOJ) must enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to develop a taxonomy for categorizing different types of cybercrime faced by individuals and businesses; DOJ must establish a category in the National Incident-Based Reporting System for collecting cybercrime reports from federal, state, and local officials; DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Bureau of the Census must include questions about cybercrime in the annual National Crime Victimization Survey; and the Government Accountability Office must assess the effectiveness of reporting mechanisms for cybercrime and disparities in reporting cybercrime data and other types of crime data.…

Summarized by Claude AI · Non-partisan · For informational purposes only

CBO Cost Estimate

Congressional Budget Office

H.R. 4977, Better Cybercrime Metrics Act

Jan 27, 2022

As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on December 8, 2021

Full CBO report ↗

Official non-partisan budget analysis by the Congressional Budget Office

Cosponsors (18)

10 Democrats8 Republicans