Federal Network Protection Act

Bill: 115-s-2743
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2018-04-24
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Latest action: action_date: 2018-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-04-24
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Federal Network Protection Act</b></p> <p>This bill specifies that the Department of Homeland Security is not required to provide notice to private entities before issuing binding operational directives on agency information security policies and practices.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2743 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 24, 2018 Mrs. Feinstein introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs A BILL To clarify that the Secretary of Homeland Security is not required to provide notice to private entities before issuing binding operational directives on agency information security policies and practices.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Federal Network Protection Act . 2. Notice not required for private entities Section 3553 of title 44, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (j) as subsection (k); and (2) by inserting after subsection (i) the following: (j) Rule of construction Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the Secretary to provide notice to any private entity before the Secretary issues a binding operational directive under subsection (b)(2). .