HR 6395 Amended and Passed in Senate – FY 2021 NDAA

On Monday, the Senate adopted substitute language for, and passed, HR 6395, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, by a voice vote. The substitute language closely tracks the language the Senate earlier adopted for S 4049, the Senate version of this bill. The Senate’s action set up today’s scheduled vote in the House to go to conference on the bill. This would allow the House and Senate to work out the differences between the two versions of the bill.

The Senate language does include a version of the FY 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act.

I would suspect that most of the cybersecurity provisions that were added during floor action in the House will remain in the approved conference version of the bill.