To improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance multi-directional sharing of information related to cybersecurity risks and strengthen privacy and civil liberties protections, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1560.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1560, Protecting Cyber Networks Act” on April 13, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 26, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 13, 2015 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50110

  CBO publication date

  April 13, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1560, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1560

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-63 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee on April 13, 2015.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 13, 2015 ↗

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  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/63

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1560, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1560

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NUNES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 49, March 24, 2015, Page H1900):
  The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States government support the national security interests of the United States, support and assist the armed forces of the United States, and support the President in the execution of the foreign policy of the United States. Article I, section 8 gives Congress the power ``to . . . provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.'' The Necessary and Proper Clause of that section also grants Congress the power ``[t]o make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers and all other Powers vested in this Constitution in the Government of the United States,…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 24, 2015 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1560, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1560

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5345861648c7f6ee4502410ef21c45c75f383ac865fbb7542ab39de3233c3a15

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