Senate · Roll call 290 · 1st session · Oct. 27, 2015 A vote to adopt an amendment to S. 754 exempting private entity communications with the FBI or Secret Service about cybersecurity threats from the DHS capability and process.

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Senators voted on whether to add this amendment to the bill's text. A Yes vote would add it; a No vote would leave the bill as it stood. It would exempt from the capability and process within the Department of Homeland Security communication between a private entity and the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the United States Secret Service regarding cybersecurity threats. S. 754 is a bill to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats.

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Summary by the Congressional Research Service

Highlights: This bill requires the Director of National Intelligence and the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Defense, and Justice to develop procedures to share cybersecurity threat information with private entities, nonfederal government agencies, state, tribal, and local governments, the public, and entities under threats.