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Bills and laws in the US Congress that set federal cybersecurity duties, agency authorities and protections for public and private systems.
Senators passed the Health Care Cybersecurity and Resilience Act by unanimous consent after the 2024 version died with its term. If the House agrees, healthcare's security rules get updated, with federal grants and training attached.
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Sen. Ed Markey's bill would create a five-member, Senate-confirmed board with subpoena power to investigate AI-agent hacks on federal systems. Teams running agents on those systems could face investigators independent of the vendors that now largely run such inquiries.
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Sens. Mark Warner and Ted Cruz filed a bill giving NTIA 18 months to write voluntary telecom security practices, with an optional third-party certification. Adopting them stays each carrier's choice, nearly a year after the mandatory post-breach rules were scrapped.
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House Democrats introduced a bill ordering CISA to measure its threat hunting, incident response and Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative staffing against its mission, and to report the gaps to Congress.
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Five lawmakers announced two bills putting biotech and genomic data under CISA's infrastructure planning, with no new sector. If enacted, DHS would contact key biotech firms and fold their input into the National Infrastructure Protection Plan this year.
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