[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 125 (Tuesday, August 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S6311]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2580. Mr. FLAKE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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:

       Beginning on page 46, strike line 10 and all that follows 
     through page 47, line 12, and insert the following:
       (3) to require a new information sharing relationship 
     between any entity and the Federal Government or another 
     entity; or
       (4) to require the use of the capability and process within 
     the Department of Homeland Security developed under section 
     5(c).
       (g) Preservation of Contractual Obligations and Rights.--
     Nothing in this Act shall be construed--
       (1) to amend, repeal, or supersede any current or future 
     contractual agreement, terms of service agreement, or other 
     contractual relationship between any entities, or between any 
     entity and a Federal entity; or
       (2) to abrogate trade secret or intellectual property 
     rights of any entity or Federal entity.
       (h) Anti-Tasking Restriction.--Nothing in this Act shall be 
     construed to permit the Federal Government--
       (1) to require an entity to provide information to the 
     Federal Government or anther entity;
       (2) to condition the sharing of cyber threat indicators 
     with an entity on such entity's provision of cyber threat 
     indicators to the Federal Government or another entity; or
       (3) to condition the award of any Federal grant, contract, 
     or purchase on the provision of a cyber threat indicator to a 
     Federal entity or another entity.
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