S 2983 Introduced – Cyber Info Sharing

Back in October Sen Peters (D,MI) introduced S 2983, the Extending Expired Cybersecurity Authorities Act. The bill would extend the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act through September 30^th, 2035. It would also revise the title of that act to read “Protecting America from Cyber Threats Act”.

One provision of this short bill will no longer be necessary. Section 2(b) would make the extension retroactive to October 1^st, 2025. When this bill was written the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act had expired on September 30^th. Section 149 of the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 (PL 119-37) extended this authority until January 30^th, 2026.

Moving Forward

Peters is the Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to which this bill would normally have been assigned for consideration. Instead, this bill was placed directly on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 182. This means that the bill could be called up at any time for consideration by the full Senate. Still, the impetus for early consideration of the bill has eased, and it is not likely to be considered until after January 30^th. Of course, if a spending bill or yet another continuing resolution further extends the 6 USC 1510(a) (Note: this version of the section still has not been updated for PL 119-37) termination date, then there will be little political pressure to take up this bill.