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kind: "diff"
citation: "S. 174"
bill: "116-s-174"
heading: "Securing Energy Infrastructure Act"
from: "is"
from_label: "Introduced in Senate"
to: "rs"
to_label: "Reported in Senate"
sections_amended: 1
sections_added: 0
sections_removed: 0
url: "https://uscodex.org/bills/116/s/174/changes/rs"
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# S. 174 — what changed

S. 174, Securing Energy Infrastructure Act — 1 section amended between Introduced in Senate and Reported in Senate.

Edits are marked `<del>struck</del>` and `<ins>inserted</ins>`.

## Sec. 2 Definitions

- In this Act:
- (1) Appropriate committee of Congress— The term appropriate committee of Congress means—
  - (A) the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; and
  - (B) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives.
- (2) Covered entity— The term covered entity means an entity identified pursuant to section 9(a) <ins>owner or operator described in section 9(c) </ins>of Executive Order 13636 of February 12, 2013 (78 Fed. Reg. 11742), relating to identification of critical infrastructure where a cybersecurity incident could reasonably result in catastrophic regional or national effects on public health or safety, economic security, or national security.
- (3) Exploit— The term exploit means a software tool designed to take advantage of a security vulnerability.
- (4) Industrial control system—
  - (A) In general— The term industrial control system means an operational technology used to measure, control, or manage industrial functions.
  - (B) Inclusions— The term “industrial control system” includes supervisory control and data acquisition systems, distributed control systems, and programmable logic or embedded controllers.
- (5) National Laboratory— The term National Laboratory has the meaning given the term in section 2 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15801).
- (6) Program— The term Program means the pilot program established under section 3.
- (7) Secretary— The term Secretary means the Secretary of Energy.
- (8) Security vulnerability— The term security vulnerability means any attribute of hardware, software, process, or procedure that could enable or facilitate the defeat of a security control.