Bills Introduced – 08-30-19

Yesterday with both the House and Senate meeting in proforma session (almost no one present) there were 15 bills introduced. One of these bills will receive future consideration in this blog:

HR 4217 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to develop tools to help State and local governments establish or improve cybersecurity, and for other purposes.  Rep. Katko, John [R-NY-24]

This bill would (text has already been published) would establish three separate cybersecurity grant programs for State and local governments.

Interesting side note: While Congresscritters are not in Washington, staffs certainly are. The House Homeland Security Committee filed six committee reports in yesterday’s session. Two of those (HR 3318 and HR 3710) will likely be addressed here in more detail when the reports are actually published next week.