House lawmakers move to extend two key cyber programs, for now therecord.media/house-law…

A short-term government funding bill unveiled on Tuesday would extend two key cybersecurity laws another seven weeks.

The measure from the House Appropriations Committee would extend the life of the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA 2015) and the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program — both of which are slated to expire September 30 — until November 21.

If approved, the two-month reprieve would give House and Senate lawmakers more time to align on how best to renew the statutes, particularly the decade-old cyber threat information sharing initiative, which provides legal safeguards for companies that voluntarily share threat intelligence data with the government or each other.

Private entities and federal officials have been adamant that the effort be renewed.