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H.R. 7266119th CongressScience, Technology, Communications
Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity Act
Sponsored by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) · 2 active : 1 Republican, 1 Democrat
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate13 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedJun 29, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govRural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity Act
This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 a program that provides cybersecurity-related assistance and funding to rural electric cooperatives and municipal or small, investor-owned electric utilities. The bill also revises methods of awarding support and expands protections for information shared under the program.
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This program, known as the Rural and Municipal Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program, is administered by the Department of Energy (DOE). Current law requires DOE to provide technical assistance and funding under the program on a competitive basis; under the bill, assistance and funding may be provided on a competitive or noncompetitive basis.
Current law also requires DOE to prioritize providing technical assistance and funding to certain entities, including entities that own
defense critical electric infrastructure
. The bill specifies that DOE must also prioritize entities that operate such infrastructure. (Defense critical electric infrastructure is electric infrastructure that (1) is located in the contiguous United States, and (2) serves a designated critical defense facility but is not owned or operated by the owner or operator of the critical facility.)
Finally, the bill expands an existing protection against disclosure to cover all information shared under the program by or with the federal government or a state, tribal, or local government. This provision protects against disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act and other state, tribal, or local disclosure laws.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReported by · Referred to
- Energy · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Infrastructure development
- Rural conditions and development
- State and local government operations
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 13Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 25Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
2 activeShow all 2 cosponsors
- Jennifer L. McClellan (D-VA-4)
- Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-1)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
