Bills Introduced – 06-19-18

Yesterday with both the House and Senate in session there were 36 bills introduced. Of those there are three that may be of specific interest to readers of this blog:

HR 6147 Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes. Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-42] 

S 3085 A bill to establish a Federal Acquisition Security Council and to provide executive agencies with authorities relating to mitigating supply chain risks in the procurement of information technology, and for other purposes. Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]

S 3088 A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to prepare veterans for careers in the energy industry, including the solar, wind, cybersecurity, and other low-carbon emissions sectors or zero-emissions sectors of the energy industry, and for other purposes. Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]

HR 6147 is one of those spending bills that I expect will not receive any additional coverage here, but you never can tell what may be slipped into the Committee Report.

I will be watching S 3085 for the definitions it uses. Hopefully, someone on the staff realizes that the Federal government is a consumer of control systems in various guises.

Depending on the definitions used here for ‘cybersecurity’ I may be watching S 3088 for its effects on cybersecurity manpower development.