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Subject:    [ISN] House cyber bills may hit floor separately
From:       InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date:       2015-04-17 11:11:09
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1504171110580.30600 () infosecnews ! org
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http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/239062-house-cyber-bills-may-hit-floor-separately

By Cory Bennett
thehill.com
04/16/15

The two House bills to increase public-private cybersecurity information 
sharing may hit the floor separately next week after all, despite weeks of 
speculation the pair would be combined.

The House Intelligence and Homeland Security committees have worked since 
January to develop two complementary bills.

Together, the measures would grant companies liability protection when 
sharing cyber threat data with civilian government agencies. Committee 
leaders had hoped to merge their efforts before a floor vote to simplify 
the path to passage. But according to notifications from the House Rules 
Committee, the two bills will get individual floor votes.

[...]



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