On
the last real day of Senate activity before the current recess the Senate Homeland
Security and Government Affairs Committee ordered the publishing of their
report on S
2519, the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center Act of
2014. As I reported in my original
blog posting on this bill this bill was ordered reported the day after its
introduction by HSGAC Chair Carper (D,DE).
There
was one amendment made to the bill during the markup
hearing (.PDF Download link) on June 25th; an amendment by Sen.
Johnson (R,WI). That amendment {§3(b)} clarifies that the legislation does not
provide an new authority for the Secretary of Homeland Security to “promulgate
regulations or set standards relating to the cybersecurity of private sector
critical infrastructure”.
Writing
and publishing a committee report in just 30 days (for a non-appropriations
bill) is pretty quick in the Senate. That combined with insuring that the
report was ordered printed before the recess probably indicates that at least
Sen. Carper expects this bill to come to the floor of the Senate early after the
return of the Senate in September. We will just have to wait and see if Sen.
Reid (D,NV) shares that intention.
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