Bills Introduced – 07-19-18

Yesterday with the House and Senate preparing to leave Washington for the weekend there were 49 bills introduced. Of those, three may be of specific interest to readers of this blog:

HR 6438 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish in the Department of Homeland Security an Unmanned Aircraft Systems Coordinator, and for other purposes.  Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-4]

HR 6443 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a continuous diagnostics and mitigation program at the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes. Rep. Ratcliffe, John [R-TX-4] 

HR 6461 To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish in the Transportation Security Administration a National Deployment Office, and for other purposes. Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]

There were a number of other homeland security related bills introduced yesterday, but none of specific interest here. Interestingly most of these bills were proposed by leadership of the House Homeland Security Committee (on both sides of the dais) and will be considered next week in a full committee hearing.

I will be watching 6438 to see if it contains counter UAS language instead of just coordinating DHS UAS operations.

I suspect that 6443 will be focused on federal IT programs, but I will be watching (as normal) for control system security information.

On HR 6461 I will be watching for surface transportation language, but I suspect that this will focus on passenger air security technology deployments.