---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 681f"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "681f"
heading: "Cyber Incident Reporting Council"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/681f"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter XVIII — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency"
  - "Part D — Cyber Incident Reporting"
---

# §681f. Cyber Incident Reporting Council

- (a) **Responsibility of the Secretary—** The [Secretary](/usc/6/641.md?p=3) shall lead an intergovernmental [Cyber Incident](/usc/6/681.md?p=5) Reporting [Council](/usc/6/681.md?p=2), in consultation with the [Director](/usc/6/650.md?p=10) of the Office of Management and Budget, the Attorney General, the National Cyber [Director](/usc/6/650.md?p=10), [Sector Risk Management Agencies](/usc/6/650.md?p=23), and other appropriate [Federal agencies](/usc/6/677a.md?p=4), to coordinate, deconflict, and harmonize Federal [incident](/usc/6/650.md?p=12) reporting requirements, including those issued through regulations.
- (b) **Rule of construction—** Nothing in [subsection (a)](#a) shall be construed to provide any additional regulatory authority to any [Federal entity](/usc/6/681.md?p=7).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title XXII, § 2246, as added Pub. L. 117–103, div. Y, § 103(a)(2), Mar. 15, 2022, 136 Stat. 1054.)