---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 1534"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "1534"
heading: "Cybercrime"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/1534"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Cybersecurity"
  - "Subchapter III — Other Cyber Matters"
---

# §1534. Cybercrime


Subject to the availability of appropriations, and in accordance with the comparable level of the General Schedule, the Attorney General and the [Secretary](/usc/6/1521.md?p=8) of [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security shall provide incentive pay, in an amount that is not more than 25 percent of the basic pay of the individual, to an individual appointed to a position in the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) of Justice (including the Federal Bureau of Investigation) or the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) of [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security (including positions in [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security Investigations), respectively, requiring significant cyber skills, including to aid in—

- (1) the protection of trafficking victims;
- (2) the prevention of trafficking in persons; or
- (3) the prosecution of technology-facilitated crimes against children by buyers or traffickers in persons.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–347, title IV, § 401, Jan. 5, 2023, 136 Stat. 6207.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The General Schedule, referred to in text, is set out under section 5332 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Abolish Trafficking Reauthorization Act of 2022, and not as part of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 which comprises this chapter.