House funding extension tacks on two-month reprieve for key cybersecurity laws

The short-term measure gives lawmakers extra time to iron out differences between House and Senate versions of the renewal.

House appropriators unveiled a temporary funding plan on Tuesday that would keep two cornerstone cybersecurity laws alive through Nov. 21.

The continuing resolution delays the Sept. 30 sunset of the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act and the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. The former has been deemed a bedrock law that allows companies to share cyber threat intelligence with the government with liability protections in place. 

The brief extension buys Congress time to reconcile differences between House and Senate approaches to longer-term renewals. Many industry representatives had hoped for a clean, ten-year extension of the 2015 law, though this appears to be unlikely in the near term.

Earlier this month, House Homeland Security advanced ten-year extensions of both measures, but the Senate panel will debate its own bill Thursday, according ...