Bills Introduced – 6-7-23

Yesterday, with both the House and Senate in Washington (House meeting was almost pro forma because of radical right Republican grudge match), there were 100 bills introduced. There were two bills that may receive additional coverage in this blog:

HR 3932 Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 Turner, Michael R. [Rep.-R-OH-10]

S 1862 A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide explicit authority for the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to work with international partners on cybersecurity, and for other purposes. Peters, Gary C. [Sen.-D-MI]

I will be watching HR 3932 for cybersecurity measures that may affect control systems.

 

I will be watching S 1862 for language and definitions that specifically include industrial control systems within the scope of the legislation.

 

Mention in Passing

 

I would like to mention in passing an anti-swatting bill that was introduced in the House by Rep Kustoff (R,TN), HR 3913. Neither Kustoff nor any of his four, bipartisan cosponsors are members of the House Judiciary Committee to which this bill was assigned, so the bill is unlikely to go anywhere. It is nice, however, for this problem to be recognized by Congress, even if nothing is actually done about it.