6 U.S.C. § 473 — Cyber Crimes Center, Child Exploitation Investigations Unit, Computer Forensics Unit, and Cyber Crimes Unit

(a) Cyber Crimes Center -- (1) In general -- The Secretary must run a Cyber Crimes Center ("the Center") inside Homeland Security Investigations, part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (2) Purpose -- The Center gives investigative help, training, and equipment to support cyber-crime investigations at home and abroad. (b) Child Exploitation Investigations Unit -- (1) In general -- The Secretary must run a Child Exploitation Investigations Unit ("CEIU") inside the Center. (2) Functions -- The CEIU must (A) coordinate all of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's child exploitation work, including investigations into (i) child exploitation, (ii) child pornography, (iii) identifying child victims, (iv) offenders who travel to abuse children, and (v) forced child labor, including sexual exploitation; (B) focus on (i) preventing child exploitation, (ii) building investigative skills, (iii) enforcement operations, and (iv) training law enforcement at every level, on request; (C) provide training, expertise, and support to other agencies, including joining trainings run by Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces; (D) offer psychological support and counseling to Immigration and Customs Enforcement staff who work on child exploitation cases, including connecting them to existing services; (E) may work with the Department of Defense and the National Association to Protect Children to recruit, train, equip, and hire wounded or injured veterans and transitioning service members through the HERO Child Rescue Corps program; and (F) must work with other government, nonprofit, and non-government groups the Secretary approves, for outreach and training. (3) Data collection -- The CEIU must track (A) the total number of suspects Immigration and Customs Enforcement identifies; (B) the number of arrests, broken down by type, including (i) child victims identified and (ii) suspects who held positions of trust or authority over children; (C) the number of child exploitation cases opened; and (D) the number of those cases that led to federal, state, foreign, or military prosecution. (4) Availability of data to Congress -- Besides the reports required under paragraph (7), the CEIU must give this data to the congressional committees named there. (5) Cooperative agreements -- The CEIU may make agreements with others to carry out paragraphs (2) and (3). (6) Acceptance of gifts -- (A) In general -- The Secretary may accept money and in-kind gifts from the Virtual Global Taskforce, national laboratories, federal agencies, nonprofits, and schools to fund public awareness campaigns for the CEIU. (B) Exemption from Federal Acquisition Regulation -- These gifts don't have to go through normal competitive-bidding rules when the giver's services are free or low-cost to the Department. (7) Reports -- Starting within one year of May 29, 2015, and every year for four more years, the CEIU must (A) send a summary of its data from paragraph (3) to six named congressional committees (Senate Homeland Security, Senate Judiciary, Senate Appropriations, House Homeland Security, House Judiciary, and House Appropriations), and (B) post each report on the Department's website. (c) Computer Forensics Unit -- (1) In general -- The Secretary must run a Computer Forensics Unit ("CFU") inside the Center. (2) Functions -- The CFU must (A) train and support Immigration and Customs Enforcement staff and other law enforcement agencies in digital forensics, and run the Digital Forensics and Document and Media Exploitation program; (B) supply computer hardware, software, and forensic licenses to all of the agency's computer forensics staff; (C) research digital forensics and new technologies with other parts of the Department; and (D) may work with the Department of Defense, the National Association to Protect Children, and other agencies to recruit and hire veterans through the HERO program. (3) Cooperative agreements -- The CFU may make agreements to carry out paragraph (2). (4) Acceptance of gifts -- Same rules as the CEIU's gift and Federal Acquisition Regulation exemption in subsection (b)(6), but for the CFU. (d) Cyber Crimes Unit -- (1) In general -- The Secretary must run a Cyber Crimes Unit ("CCU") inside the Center. (2) Functions -- The CCU must (A) oversee cybersecurity strategy and cyber operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement; (B) improve the agency's ability to fight online criminal networks, focusing on (i) cyber economic crime, (ii) stealing intellectual property digitally, (iii) illegal online marketplaces, including hidden ones, (iv) internet-based arms and technology trafficking, and (v) cyber-enabled smuggling and money laundering; (C) train and support cyber investigations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement staff and other agencies; (D) research cyber investigation methods with the Department; and (E) may recruit HERO Child-Rescue Corps participants for investigative and forensic jobs. (3) Cooperative agreements -- The CCU may make agreements to carry out paragraph (2). (e) HERO Child-Rescue Corps -- (1) Establishment -- (A) In general -- The Center runs a department-wide Human Exploitation Rescue Operation Child-Rescue Corps Program, working with the Department of Defense and the National Association to Protect Children. (B) Private sector collaboration -- The National Association to Protect Children provides logistical support to the program's participants. (2) Purpose -- The program recruits, trains, equips, and employs active-duty service members and wounded or injured veterans to fight child exploitation, in jobs like investigation, intelligence, analysis, inspection, and forensics, or other suitable roles. (3) Functions -- The program must (A) recruit, train, and equip participants in digital forensics, investigation, analysis, intelligence, and victim identification, based on the Center's and Department's needs; and (B) make sure participants, during their internship, investigate and analyze (i) child exploitation, (ii) child pornography, (iii) unidentified child victims, (iv) human trafficking, (v) offenders who travel to abuse children, and (vi) forced child labor, including sexual exploitation. (f) Paid internship and hiring program -- (1) In general -- The Secretary must create a paid internship and hiring program to place HERO program participants into paid internships, aiming to later hire them permanently, under guidelines set in paragraph (3). (2) Internship positions -- The Secretary assigns or details participants to jobs within Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other federal agencies, following those guidelines. (3) Placement -- (A) In general -- The Secretary must write guidelines for assigning participants to jobs, including internship duties and agreements about later permanent hiring. (B) Preference -- Homeland Security Investigations gets priority for these placements. (4) Term of internship -- An internship can last up to 12 months. (5) Rate and term of pay -- After finishing initial training and starting at an assigned office, a participant who isn't already receiving active-duty military pay must be paid (A) at least the minimum pay for a GS-5 federal position, and (B) no more than the maximum pay for a GS-7 position. (6) Eligibility -- Eligibility for the internship program must match eligibility for the HERO Child-Rescue Corps Program itself. (7) Hero Corps hiring -- The Secretary must create new positions within Homeland Security Investigations -- on top of any that already existed as of December 21, 2019 -- to permanently hire graduates of the internship program. (g) Authorization of appropriations -- (1) In general -- Congress may appropriate whatever money the Secretary needs to carry out this section. (2) Allocation -- For each fiscal year from 2022 through 2027, the Secretary may spend no more than $10,000,000 of that money on subsection (e) (the HERO program), and must spend at least $2,000,000 on subsection (f) (the internship and hiring program).