[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 129 (Thursday, July 22, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5057-S5058]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 AUTHORIZING THE NATIONAL CYBER DIRECTOR TO ACCEPT DETAILS FROM OTHER 
      ELEMENTS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON NONREIMBURSABLE BASIS

  Mr. REED. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 105, S. 2382.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2382) to authorize the National Cyber Director 
     to accept details from other elements of the Federal 
     Government on nonreimbursable basis, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. REED. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
considered read a third time and passed, and that the motion to 
reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2382) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed as follows

                                S. 2382

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. AUTHORITY FOR NATIONAL CYBER DIRECTOR TO ACCEPT 
                   DETAILS ON NONREIMBURSABLE BASIS.

       Section 1752(e) of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 
     116-283) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (8) as 
     subparagraphs (A) through (H), respectively, and indenting 
     such subparagraphs two ems to the right;
       (2) in the matter before subparagraph (A), as redesignated 
     by paragraph (1), by striking ``The Director may'' and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(1) In general.--The Director may'';
       (3) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) as redesignated by paragraph (2), by redesignating 
     subparagraphs (C) through (H) as subparagraphs (D) through 
     (I), respectively; and
       (B) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new 
     subparagraph (C):
       ``(C) accept officers or employees of the United States or 
     member of the Armed Forces on a detail from an element of the 
     intelligence community or from another element of the Federal 
     Government on a nonreimbursable basis, as jointly agreed to 
     by the heads of the receiving and detailing elements, for a 
     period not to exceed three years;''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Rules of construction regarding details.--Paragraph 
     (1)(C) shall not be construed to impose any limitation on any 
     other authority for reimbursable or nonreimbursable details. 
     A nonreimbursable detail made

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     under such paragraph shall not be considered an augmentation 
     of the appropriations of the receiving element of the Office 
     of the National Cyber Director.''.

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