119th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 1018 — Cybersecurity 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 Mar 13, 2025

Last action Mar 13, 2025

Pipeline · Bill → Law

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Introduced

Mar 13, 2025

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Referred

Mar 13, 2025

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 to...

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in Senate

AmendmentAI

Timeline · 2 actions

Mar 13, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Mar 13, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.