118th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 2388Cybersecurity for Rural Water Systems Act

A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish a cybersecurity circuit rider program to provide cybersecurity-related technical assistance to certain entities that operate rural water or wastewater systems.

Agriculture and food
Introduced Jul 19, 2023
Last action Jul 19, 2023
Pipeline · Bill → Law
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Introduced
Jul 19, 2023
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Referred
Jul 19, 2023
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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Committee
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Senate
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House floor
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Resolve Changes
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Signed
SummaryCRS Summary

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a cybersecurity circuit rider program to provide cybersecurity technical assistance for rural water and wastewater systems. The program must be structured similarly to the USDA Circuit Rider Program. (Under this program, USDA provides technical assistance to rural water systems that serve areas with populations of 10,000 or fewer people and are experiencing day-to-day operational, financial, or managerial issues.) Specifically, the cybersecurity circuit rider program must provide technical assistance to rural water or wastewater systems to provide rapid assessments of the system's current ability or inability to respond t...

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in Senate
Timeline · 2 actions
Jul 19, 2023
Introduced in Senate
Jul 19, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.