H.R. 7266 · 119th Congress · Science, technology, communications
Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Jun 29, 2026
Passed by voice vote.
Passed the House on June 29, 2026.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- IntroducedJan 27, 2026
- CommitteeApr 30, 2026
- Passed HouseJun 29, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 2
- 1 Democrat, 1 Republican
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Lobbying
- At least 3
- organizations named it2026 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The bill rewrites Section 40124 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to continue the Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program at the Department of Energy.
The bill rewrites Section 40124 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to continue the Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program at the Department of Energy. The program directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance and award funding, including grants, cooperative agreements, and prizes, to small utilities so they can protect against, detect, respond to, and recover from cyber threats. Eligible entities include rural electric cooperatives, municipally owned utilities, other publicly owned utilities, qualifying not-for-profit partnerships, and investor-owned utilities that sell less than 4,000,000 megawatt hours per year, with priority given to those that have limited cybersecurity resources or own critical grid or defense infrastructure. Information shared under the program is deemed voluntarily shared and exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and from state, Tribal, and local open-records laws. The bill authorizes $250,000,000 for fiscal years 2027 through 2031.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 3 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 10 quarterly reports filed by 3 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
The organizations named: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA); Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.; American Public Power Association. Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.