Committee chairman gives DHS-centric cyber bill 80 percent chance of becoming law
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said he believes his National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act (HR-3696) may be “the one bill that passes this Congress and gets signed into law” during the upcoming lame-duck session. McCaul…
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gave the bill an 80 percent chance of success, saying during a Tuesday Bloomberg Government event that behind-the-scenes discussions on HR-3696 in the Senate have been positive. The bill passed the House in July (see 1407290027). McCaul said Tuesday that HR-3696 has gained “so much support not only from industry, but from privacy groups” because it deals solely with facilitating cybersecurity information sharing between the Department of Homeland Security and the private sector. McCaul said he wasn’t sure what would happen to the House-passed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) and its Senate counterpart, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). Industry observers have said they're pessimistic that CISA (S-2588) can pass the Senate and be successfully conferenced with CISPA (HR-624) before the end of the 113th Congress (see 1407300030).