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Bipartisan effort to clean up cyber regulations gets a boost in House, but calendar is tight

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Dissent

Martin Matishak reports:

A House Republican late last week introduced legislation to untangle the country’s jumble of cybersecurity regulations, keeping the bipartisan proposal alive as Congress finishes its work for 2024.

The measure from Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a member of both the House Homeland Security and Oversight committees, is a companion bill to bipartisan legislation that sailed through the panel’s Senate counterpart in July by a 14-1 vote. Recorded Future News first reported on the proposed law.

Both would require the White House’s national cyber director to establish a committee to harmonize the patchwork of cyber requirements imposed on the private sector by federal regulatory agencies.

Read more at The Record.


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