Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity Act

This bill rewrites and renews a federal program that gives technical help and funding to smaller electric utilities to protect against, detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats. Eligible utilities include rural electric cooperatives, utilities owned by local governments, certain nonprofit partnerships, and investor-owned utilities that sell less than 4,000,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year. The Secretary would give priority to utilities with limited cybersecurity resources or that own assets important to the power grid or to defense. Information shared under the program would be exempt from federal, state, Tribal, and local public records laws. The bill authorizes $250,000,000 for fiscal years 2027 through 2031.

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Sponsors

• David McCormick Republican sponsor
• 5 cosponsors