Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to allow Drinking Water Infrastructure Risk and Resilience Program grants to fund cybersecurity training, manuals, and guidance for community water systems.
It updates eligible grant years to 2026 through 2031.
The change explicitly includes protecting against and responding to cyberattacks on public water systems.
Content is narrow and non-controversial, improving odds, but passage depends on appropriations and legislative scheduling.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused statutory amendment that clearly expands the permissible uses of an existing drinking-water resilience grant program to include cybersecurity training and materials and updates authorization years. It is well-targeted and integrates cleanly into the cited statutory provisions.
Liberals emphasize equity and public-health protections.
Liberals emphasize equity and public-health protections.
Generally supportive; sees the bill as strengthening public-health infrastructure and protecting vulnerable communities from service disruption.
Values training for operators and materials that build local capacity to respond to cyber threats.
May want stronger equity and accountability provisions.
Cautiously supportive; recognizes cyber threats to critical infrastructure and sees training grants as a pragmatic response.
Wants clear accountability, measurable outcomes, and coordination with existing federal cybersecurity programs.
Views extension of program years as reasonable but wants fiscal and administrative clarity.
Mixed to somewhat skeptical; supports protecting critical infrastructure but wary of expanding federal grant programs.
Concerns center on federal overreach, new bureaucracy, and potential strings attached to local control.
May support only with limits on federal conditions and demonstrated cost-effectiveness.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
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Still ahead
Content is narrow and non-controversial, improving odds, but passage depends on appropriations and legislative scheduling.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Liberals emphasize equity and public-health protections.
Content is narrow and non-controversial, improving odds, but passage depends on appropriations and legislative scheduling.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused statutory amendment that clearly expands the permissible uses of an existing drinking-water resilience grant program to include cybersecurity tr…
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