Thursday, March 31, 2022

Senate HSGA Committee Amends and Approves 2 Cybersecurity Bills

Yesterday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a business meeting looking at eight nominations, eleven postal naming bills, and eleven other bills. Two of those ‘other bills’ dealt with cybersecurity issues:

S 3511, Satellite Cybersecurity Act, and

S 3904, Healthcare Cybersecurity Act of 2022.

Sen Peters (D,MI) offered substitute language for the S 3511. That substitute language was subsequently modified and Sen Ossoff offered another amendment that was also adopted.

Similar actions were taken with respect to S 3904. The substitute language, subsequent modification, and new amendment were all proposed by Sen Rosen (D,NV).

All of the above actions were approved by an en bloc voice vote. Unfortunately, the Committee does not provide copies of substitute language or amendments, so we have no way of knowing what changes were actually made. We will have to wait for the Committee Report.

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