Bills › 90th General Assembly

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 12, 2023
  2. Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 12, 2023
  3. Done: House committeeJanuary 25, 2023
  4. Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 139
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

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What’s in it

AI summary Iowa State University will host a new center focused on training people to fight cyberattacks. This center will provide research, training exercises, and competitions for students, teachers, businesses, and government agencies. Its goal is to help people learn how to stop digital threats and fix damage caused by hackers.1

Read the official explanation

This bill establishes the cybersecurity simulation training center at the Iowa state university of science and technology. The bill requires the center to conduct and sponsor research and activities that enable persons to develop strategies to counter cybersecurity threats and mitigate the damage resulting from a cybersecurity attack. The bill provides that the center shall be available to businesses, state agencies, political subdivisions of the state, students, and educators, and shall support cybersecurity training exercises, case studies, student H.F. _____ events and competitions, training exercises for educators, and cybersecurity workforce development.

Full bill text2

House subcommittee

Named January 12, 2023. On January 23, 2023 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.

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Iowa Code it changes

Creates§266.50

How the Code works3

Lobbying

8 for · 0 against · 11 undecided · Who →

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.

  • HF 2555 Establishing the cybersecurity simulation training center at the Iowa state university of …
    89th General Assembly · Passed House · nearly identical
    Passed a chamber

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  • SSB 1160 SSB 1160
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    Nearly identical

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