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House Passes DHS Data Sharing Bill That’s Ready For Trump

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, December 12th, 2018

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House Passes DHS Data Sharing Bill That’s Ready For Trump

Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Information Technology of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

The House on Wednesday passed by voice vote a bipartisan bill aimed at improving data sharing within the Department of Homeland Security by boosting the department’s efforts to consolidate disparate databases systems across its various agencies.The Department of Homeland Security Data Framework Act of 2018 (H.R. 2454) now goes to President Trump’s desk for this signature. The Senate passed the legislation last week.The bill requires the development of “a data framework to integrate existing Department of Homeland Security datasets and…

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