Christopher "Chris" DeLacy is a Partner and
Kaylee A. Cox an Associate in our Washington,
D.C. office .
After five years of trying and failing, over the next several
weeks Congress may finally make meaningful progress on
cybersecurity and data breach legislation. This week the
House Energy & Commerce Committee and the House Homeland
Security Committee are respectively marking-up data breach and
cybersecurity bills, and floor consideration could take place soon
thereafter along with a House Intelligence Committee cyber
information sharing bill. The Senate intends to consider
cybersecurity information sharing legislation on the floor prior to
Memorial Day, and data breach legislation may be considered as an
amendment to the cyber bill on the floor. Of course, many
important details are yet to be negotiated, and the ability of
Congress to move legislation recently has been anemic. What
makes the current situation potentially different is that these
bills are
