Yesterday, with both the House and Senate meeting in Washington, there were 74 bills introduced. Three of those bills are worth mentioning in passing:
HR 498 To amend title V of the Public Health Service Act to secure the suicide prevention lifeline from cybersecurity incidents, and for other purposes. Obernolte, Jay [Rep.-R-CA-23]
H Res 56 Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives. Johnson, Mike [Rep.-R-LA-4]
H Res 57 Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives. Aguilar, Pete [Rep.-D-CA-33]
HR 498
This is not a bill that I will be following here, it is a government system IT security bill with no specific impact on control system security. Having said that, if Congress has to go through the process of introducing legislation for each relatively minor federal program to ensure that each program has adequate cybersecurity provisions in place, we are going to see an exhaustive number of this type of legislation. I suspect, however, that this bill will see no action in the 118th Congress.
Committee Memberships
These two resolutions continue with the time consuming, but necessary administrative jobs of the new Congress. While the text of either resolution is not yet available, the lists of Committee assignments approved were printed in the Congressional Record. Both passed by unanimous consent (no vote, no debate). The lists are not necessarily exhaustive lists of the members of the respective committees.
H Res 56 provided lists of Republican members for the following Committees:
• Committee on Appropriations,
• Committee on Energy and Commerce,
• Committee on Financial Services,
• Committee on House
Administration,
• Committee on Rules, and
• Committee on Ways and Means
H Res 57 provided lists of Democratic members of the following Committee:
• Committee on Energy and Commerce,
• Committee on Financial Services,
• Committee on House Administration,
• Committee on Rules, and
• Committee on Ways and Means
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