S.Amdt. 2868Senate115th Congress (2017-2019)2nd degree
S.Amdt. 2868
Sponsored by
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Submitted June 13, 2018
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June 13, 2018
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SA 2868. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 771, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following: (4) Open source software.--The term ``open source software'' means software for which the human-readable source code is available for use, study, re-use, modification, enhancement, and re-distribution by the users of that software. On page 772, line 9, strike ``force protection or''. On page 773, lines 11 and 12, strike ``a weapons system, or computer antivirus'' and insert ``or weapons system''. On page 773, lines 15 and 16, strike ``product, system, or service custom-developed'' and insert ``noncommercial product, system, or service developed''. On page 773, line 19, strike ``product, system, or service custom-developed'' and insert ``noncommercial product, system, or service developed''. On page 774, line 18, insert ``noncommercial'' before ``information''. On page 774, line 20, strike ``custom-developed'' and insert ``developed specifically''. On page 776, between lines 2 and 3, insert the following: (d) Limitations.--The requirements of this section shall not apply to the following: (1) Code that is not part of a National Security System. (2) The code of open source software. ______