Relates to prohibiting the procurement of certain technology and products which pose a state or national security risk

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◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Jeremy Cooney says this is needed

Security experts in the federal government have determined that govern- ment use of technology from certain international companies poses a threat to national security, due to the companies' close ties to another country's government. This technology has the genuine potential to surreptitiously transmit sensitive data to another country, and act as a "back door" for another country to engage in cyberattacks. Due to the security concern, Congress has passed multiple laws prohibit- ing this technology from federal procurement. Section 889 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 estab- lished a policy that the federal government would actively maintain and update a list of prohibited international tech products that posed a security threat. Section 5459 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 prohibited federal procurement of technology containing semiconductors from certain intematio Companies. Additionally, the Department of Defense Inspector General's report "Audit of the DoD's Management of the Cybersedurity Risks for (DODIG-2019- 106) concluded that the US Navy's procurement of technology from certain, international companies Constituted a threat to national security. Nonetheless, New York is one of 49 states that still procures technology from these companies, with contracts worth tens of millions of dollars. This bill prohibits the State and all municipalities from procurement of technology from the companies whose procurement the federal government determined to be a national security threat, protecting sensitive infor- mation and preventing cyberattacks. This will also support the growing domestic semiconductor industry, including the planned $100 billion semicondudtor plant in Clay, New York. The act takes effect in five years, a time when there is projected to be a robust domestic semicon- ductor industry.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.