To provide amounts necessary for accelerated cybersecurity in response to data breaches.

SA 2557. Ms. MIKULSKI (for herself, Mr. Cardin, and Mr. Warner)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S.
754, to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced
sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. FUNDING.

(a) In General.--Effective on the date of enactment of this
Act, there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2015, an additional amount for the
appropriations account appropriated under the heading
``salaries and expenses'' under the heading ``Office of
Personnel Management'', $37,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2017, for accelerated cybersecurity in
response to data breaches.
(b) Emergency Designation.--The amount appropriated under
subsection (a) is designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
and shall be available only if the President subsequently so
designates such amount and transmits such designation to the
Congress.
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