Bills Introduced – 10-22-19

Yesterday with both the House and Senate in session there were 45 bills introduced. Three of those bills may see further coverage in this blog:

HR 4792 To establish a voluntary program to identify and promote internet-connected products that meet industry-leading cybersecurity and data security standards, guidelines, best practices, methodologies, procedures, and processes, and for other purposes. Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33] 

S 2656 A bill to disclose access to election infrastructure by foreign nationals. Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] 

S 2664 A bill to establish a voluntary program to identify and promote internet-connected products that meet industry-leading cybersecurity and data security standards, guidelines, best practices, methodologies, procedures, and processes, and for other purposes. Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] 

It looks like HR 4792 and S 2664 may be companion bills. See this article here about these bills. As always definitions and other details will be important.

It will be interesting to see how S 2656 deals with the complex attribution issue. I expect a simplistic approach.

Bills Introduced – 7-24-14

There is just one week left before Congress goes home for their summer recess and we are starting to see a surge in the number of purely political bills introduced. Yesterday there were a total of 52 bills introduced and two of them may be of specific interest to readers of this blog:

S 2656 Latest Title: A bill to provide for the regulation of persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemical substances, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Merkley, Jeff (D,OR)

S 2664 Latest Title: A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to modernize the integrated public alert and warning system of the United States, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Begich, Mark (D,AK)