Topic 5 DQ 2
Review the process of how a bill becomes law. Using the U.S. legislation process, from a practical standpoint how can cybersecurity laws be considered by legislators with no technical background?
Topic 5 DQ 2
Based on reviewing the process of the Bill that can become a law based on the legal system. Therefore, Bill under U.S. legislation is often matured and gets a legal system for involvement in a Gradual stepwise approval process. This mainly includes the acceptance from the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and the President before it finally becomes a law (Kornilova & Eidelman, 2019). The evolution of a Bill begins with an idea that can come from anyone including the citizens or representatives; which is further researched and proposed into a Bill form. Now the proposed Bill with the support of sponsors and representatives is introduced in the US House of Representatives where it is read in front of all representatives and further, the speaker sends it to the committee for approval.
With the committee’s expertise and opinion on the Bill, their approval is reported to the house floor. Moreover, the bill gets ready for debate with an agreement or a disagreement based on the representations or the various changes which are required.
Based on the amended changes, the bill is now awaiting Voting in the US House of Representatives. After receiving Yes from the majority of the representatives, the passed bill is sent to the Senate where it is further scrutinized and voted by the senators. If the bill is also passed by the US Senate, it is sent to the President for final approval.
Thus, with all the approvals from the US, House of Representatives, the US Senate, and the President, the Bill of Rights is finally enforced as a law by the government. Cybersecurity law enforcement by US Legislators has been a challenging measure however, a basic understanding of the implications of the law can help curb cybercrime without having a technical background for the same (Kornilova & Eidelman, 2019). This involves the government agencies being trained on specific policies and securities with improved incident response and preparedness. Furthermore, increasing cyber penalties and regulating cybersecurity with the insurance industry along with creating forces, councils and commissions can be considered for the US legislators to follow cybersecurity practically with the help of laws.
Reference
Kornilova, A., & Eidelman, V. (2019). BillSum: A corpus for automatic summarization of US legislation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.00523.
