Rep. Luetkemeyer: ‘Tentative’ plan is for hearing on data-breach bill next week

Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO), chairman of a Financial Services subcommittee that’s the starting point for consumer data security and breach notification legislation this year, says his “tentative” plan is to hold a hearing next week on the draft bill, while both his panel and the Energy and Commerce Committee continue separate stakeholder outreach efforts.

“We dropped our draft and everybody’s got their own ideas, we’re working through it,” Luetkemeyer told Inside Cybersecurity. He said the hearing on the bill...