Today, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a business meeting (as I discussed on Monday). In addition to other actions, the Committee took up two cybersecurity related bills; S 3635, the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Competition Act, and S 3594, the Source code Harmonization and Reuse in Information Technology (SHARE IT) Act.
According to the Committee Record for the meeting, both bills were amended with substitute language from Sen Peters (D,MI), the sponsor for both bills, which in both cases was further amended. The Committee does not include links to the substitute language or amendments in its Committee Record. We may have to wait until the Committee reports are published before we know what changes were made.
Both bills were approved to be reported favorably, S 3635 by
a vote of 9 to 1 and S 3594 by a vote of 10 to 0. Sen Paul (R,KY) voted against
S 3635, as did Sen Johnson (R,WI) whose nay vote was by proxy which does not
officially count. Both senators are well known for using their right to object
to unanimous consent consideration of
bills which they oppose. As I noted in my commentary on S 3635, this probably
means that there is little chance of S 3635 to be taken up by the full Senate. Both
Paul and Johnson supported S 3594 (Johnson again by proxy).
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