Yesterday the House Homeland Security Committee submitted their
report on HR
4743, the National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium Act of 2016. The reported
version of the bill reflects amendments made to the bill during a markup
hearing by the Committee on April 28th, 2016.
The revised version of the bill makes some technical changes
to the relationship between the Department and the National Cybersecurity
Preparedness Consortium. The original language would have had the Department
establish the Consortium, where the new language allows the Secretary to work
with an independently established Consortium. This relieves the Department from
any potential responsibility for funding of Consortium activities beyond
potentially providing grant monies to support specific actions.
The House is currently
scheduled to take up this bill under suspension of the rules on Monday.
This means that there will be limited debate on the floor and no additional amendments
will be allowed to the bill. It also indicates that the leadership expects
broad bipartisan support for the bill because these rules require a
super-majority (2/3rds of members present) for passage.
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