[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 125 (Tuesday, August 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S6303]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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