101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB5399
 
Introduced , by Rep. Amy Grant - Grant Wehrli
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
20 ILCS 1375/5-30 new

     Amends the Illinois Information Security Improvement Act. Provides that no State agency shall use any software platform developed, in whole or in part, by Kaspersky Lab or any entity of which Kaspersky Lab holds majority ownership. Provides that the Department of Innovation and Technology shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the provisions. Provides legislative findings.
  


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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 1. Legislative Findings.  The General hereby finds 
5and declares that:

6        (1)    The State of Illinois faces constantly evolving 
7    threats to its information technology systems. These 
8    treats can range from individuals to state or 
9    state-sponsored actors including, China, Iran, North 
10    Korea, and Russia. To counter this threat, the State of 
11    Illinois needs to contract with outside vendors to obtain 
12    the latest in cybersecurity software. In addition to being 
13    effective, it is equally important that the software 
14    obtained can be relied upon not to provide a hostile actor 
15    access to the State's information technology systems.

16        (2)   Kaspersky Lab is a Russian cybersecurity company 
17    founded in 1997 by Eugene Kaspersky, and based in Moscow, 
18    Russia. The company's founder, Eugene Kaspersky, also has a 
19    history with Russian intelligence activities and was 
20    educated at the Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School.

21        (3)   Under Russian law, their Federal Security Service, 
22    the successor to the KGB, can compel a telecommunications 
23    business to install software to assist in its operations 
24    and can assign officers to work at a company.

 
 
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1        (4)   The federal Government has already prohibited 
2    Kaspersky Lab's products from being used by the federal 
3    Government in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act. 
4    When 6 heads of United States intelligence agencies were 
5    asked during a United States Senate Committee on 
6    Intelligence hearing if they would install Kaspersky 
7    software on their own computers, all replied no.

8        (5)   Because the federal government has determined that 
9    the use of software obtained from Kaspersky Lab would be a 
10    national security threat, use of Kaspersky Lab software 
11    would also be a threat to the security of the State of 
12    Illinois.

 
13    Section 5. The Illinois Information Security Improvement 
14Act is amended  by adding Section 5-30 as follows:
 
15    (20 ILCS 1375/5-30 new)
16    Sec. 5-30. Cybersecurity software prohibited. No State 
17agency shall use any software platform developed, in whole or 
18in part, by Kaspersky Lab or any entity of which Kaspersky Lab 
19holds majority ownership. The Department shall adopt rules as 
20necessary to implement this Section.