Our bill also requires the Treasury to study and report on the risks of cyber threats to our financial institutions and capital markets.
Support legislation requiring the Treasury Department to study and report on cyber threats to financial institutions and capital markets.
Occurrences
Evidence
Question: On Passage of the Bill (S. 754, As Amended). Vote Result: Bill Passed. Measure: Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015. Rounds (R-SD), Yea.
Congress.gov records S.754 as passed by the Senate on October 27, 2015, by Yea-Nay Vote 74-21, Record Vote Number 291. The bill sought to improve cybersecurity through enhanced sharing of cybersecurity threat information.
The bill defined appropriate Federal entities to include the Department of the Treasury and required procedures and reporting for cyber threat indicators and defensive measures shared with the federal government.
Question: Motion to Concur in the House Amendments to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 2029. Vote Result: Motion Agreed to. Rounds (R-SD), Yea.
Public Law 114-113 includes Division N, the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. Its table of contents includes Title I, Cybersecurity Information Sharing, and a Report on cybersecurity threats.
Section 107 required heads of appropriate Federal entities to jointly submit to Congress a detailed report on implementation, and required inspectors general to submit biennial interagency reports on executive branch actions under the title.
Assessments
Rounds supported and voted for 2015 cybersecurity legislation that passed in his Senate term and included federal cyber-threat information-sharing and reporting provisions involving Treasury as one of the appropriate federal entities. However, the evidence does not show enactment of the narrower promised outcome: legislation specifically requiring the Treasury Department to study and report on cyber threats to financial institutions and capital markets. This merits partial credit for materially related enacted cyber reporting legislation, not full delivery.