Today, the House Homeland Security Committee announced today that it would hold a markup hearing on July 12th, 2023. One of the three bills that will be considered is HR 4470, the Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 2023. The official version of the bill has not yet been published by the Government Printing Office, the announcement provides a link to a Committee print of the bill.
According to that Committee print, this is a clean extension of the bill through September 30th, 2025. That date is important because it allows for future extensions to be made part of DHS spending bills or continuing resolutions. This makes extensions relatively easy to accomplish while the politicians continue to workout whatever problems are arising out crafting a reauthorization bill.
No one, not CISA or industry, want to see short-term
extensions of the program. Such year to year continuation of the program leaves
a large measure of uncertainty about the continuation of the program which
causes personnel issues for CISA and security-budgeting issues for industry.
Having said that, a short-term extension is much better than allowing the
program to expire.
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