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(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on October 2, 2017. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act of 2017
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize a National Computer Forensics Institute within the U.S. Secret Service for FY2017-FY2022. The institute shall: (1) disseminate information related to the investigation and prevention of cyber and electronic crime and related threats; and (2) educate, train, and equip state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges.
Institute functions include:
educating such officers, prosecutors, and judges on current cyber and electronic crimes and related threats, methods for investigating such crime and threats and for conducting computer and mobile device forensic examinations, and related prosecutorial and judicial challenges;
The institute:
shall ensure that timely, actionable, and relevant expertise and information related to such crime and related threats is shared with such officers and prosecutors;
(Sec. 3) The bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish a new part, which may be cited as the National White Collar Crime Control Act of 2017, authorizing the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance to enter into a cooperative agreement or make a grant for training and technical assistance to help law enforcement officers, investigators, auditors, and prosecutors identify, investigate, and prosecute white collar crime.
White collar crime includes high-tech crime, economic crime, and Internet-based crime against children and child pornography.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1616 as public Law on Nov 2, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House May 16, 2017
Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act of 2017
Passed · Two-thirds required
408 Yea 3 Nay 19 not voting
Crossed both parties 3 of 411 voting members broke with their own party: 3 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
430 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1616 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1616 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
22 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.