or by reason of any examination or investigation made by, 
or return, report, or record made to or filed with, such 
officer, employee, or agency. 
‘‘(b) PENALTY.—Any person who violates subsection 
(a) shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, im-
prisoned for not more than one year, or both, and shall 
be removed from office or employment. 
‘‘SEC. 251. AUTHORITY TO ISSUE WARNINGS. 
‘‘The Secretary may provide advisories, alerts, and 
warnings to relevant companies, targeted sectors, other 
government entities, or the general public regarding poten-
tial threats to information networks as appropriate. In 
issuing such an advisory, alert, or warning, the Secretary 
shall take appropriate actions to protect from disclosure— 
‘‘(1) the source of any voluntarily submitted in-
formation that forms the basis for the advisory, 
alert, or warning; and 
‘‘(2) information that is proprietary, business 
sensitive, relates specifically to the submitting per-
son or entity, or is otherwise not appropriate for dis-
closure in the public domain. 
‘‘SEC. 252. EXEMPTION FROM ANTITRUST PROHIBITIONS. 
‘‘The exchange of information by and between private 
sector members of the National Information Sharing Or-
ganization in furtherance of the mission and activities of 
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the National Information Sharing Organization shall not 
be considered a violation of any provision of the antitrust 
laws (as such term is defined in the first section of the 
Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12)). 
‘‘SEC. 253. LIMITATION. 
‘‘For any fiscal year after fiscal year 2015, the 
amount authorized to be appropriated for the National In-
formation Sharing Organization may not exceed the 
amount provided by the largest private sector member of 
the National Information Sharing Organization for that 
fiscal year.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents in section 2(b) of such Act, as amended by sec-
tion 2, is further amended by adding at the end of 
the items relating to title II the following new items: 
‘‘Subtitle E—National Information Sharing Organization 
‘‘Sec. 241. Establishment of National Information Sharing Organization. 
‘‘Sec. 242. Mission and activities. 
‘‘Sec. 243. Board of directors. 
‘‘Sec. 244. Charter. 
‘‘Sec. 245. Membership. 
‘‘Sec. 246. Funding. 
‘‘Sec. 247. Classified information. 
‘‘Sec. 248. Voluntary information sharing. 
‘‘Sec. 249. Annual independent audits. 
‘‘Sec. 250. Penalties. 
‘‘Sec. 251. Authority to issue warnings. 
‘‘Sec. 252. Exemption from antitrust prohibitions. 
‘‘Sec. 253. Limitation.’’. 
(b) INITIAL EXPENSES.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2013, 
2014, and 2015 for initial expenses associated with the 
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establishment of the National Information Sharing Orga-
nization under subtitle E of title II of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002, as added by subsection (a). Such 
amounts shall be derived from amounts appropriated for 
the operations of the Management Office for the Direc-
torate of Science and Technology of the Department of 
Homeland Security. 
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