Earlier this month, Rep Jackson-Lee (D,TX) introduced HR 3208, the DHS Cybersecurity On-the-Job Training Program Act. The bill would establish in CISA “the ‘DHS Cybersecurity On-the-Job Training Program’ to voluntarily train Department employees who are not currently in a cybersecurity position for work in matters relating to cybersecurity at the Department.” No funding would be authorized by this legislation.
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Jackson-Lee and three of her six cosponsors {Rep Payne
(D,NJ), Rep Thompson (D,MS), and Rep Clarke (D,NY)}, are members of the House
Homeland Security Committee, to which this bill was assigned for consideration.
This means that there could be sufficient influence to see this bill considered
in Committee. While I see nothing in this bill that should engender any
organized opposition, it seems odd that there are no Republican cosponsors for
the bill. While this is a divided House, I still expect to see bipartisan
support for bills like this which seem to be inherently non-partisan. That
there are no Republican sponsors makes me suspect that there are issues here
that I cannot see.
For more information about the provisions of this bill, as
well as a discussion about differences from a similar bill introduced last
session, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/hr-3208-introduced
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