Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker,…
Creates a Water Risk and Resilience Organization (WRRO), certified by the EPA Administrator, to develop cybersecurity risk and resilience requirements for covered water systems serving 3,300+ people.
The WRRO proposes requirements and implementation plans to the Administrator for approval, monitors compliance, and may impose penalties (up to $25,000/day) subject to Administrator review.
The WRRO must be independent, protect sensitive security information, and report aggregated findings; $10 million is authorized to support the WRRO.
Narrow, technical infrastructure bill with limited cost exposure increases chances, but novel private‑regulator enforcement and fines create legal and political friction.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill sets up a substantive regulatory framework creating and certifying a non‑federal Water Risk and Resilience Organization to develop cybersecurity risk and resilience requirements for covered water systems, and it supplies substantial procedural mechanics for proposal, approval, monitoring, and enforcement while leaving technical standard-setting and many details to rulemaking and the certified organization.
Support split over public safeguards versus private enforcement role
Support split over public safeguards versus private enforcement role
Likely supportive because the bill addresses cybersecurity threats to public water systems and creates technical standards and monitoring.
Cautions would focus on ensuring equitable compliance support for smaller systems, transparency, and public accountability of the WRRO.
Cautiously favorable if safeguards on costs, transparency, and Administrator oversight are strong.
The structure balances technical expertise with federal review, but the single-organization model and penalty regime merit careful guardrails.
Skeptical or opposed due to new de facto federal regulatory regime, delegated authority to a non-federal organization, and substantial penalties and fees.
Prefers state primacy and less federal-driven compliance cost.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Narrow, technical infrastructure bill with limited cost exposure increases chances, but novel private‑regulator enforcement and fines create legal and political friction.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Support split over public safeguards versus private enforcement role
Narrow, technical infrastructure bill with limited cost exposure increases chances, but novel private‑regulator enforcement and fines creat…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill sets up a substantive regulatory framework creating and certifying a non‑federal Water Risk and Resilience Organization to develop cybersecurity risk and resilience r…
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