States must plan to protect local power lines from attacks.
H.R. 7257 — SECURE Grid Act · Filed by Robert Latta (R-OH) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 27, 2026 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill tells states to make plans for local power line safety. Plans must cover physical damage and cyber attacks. States must also plan how to recover quickly if lines fail. States must talk to equipment makers when they plan. A government office must check if the plans work.
Who it affects
States must write new energy security plans. People who get power from local lines benefit from better safety planning. Equipment makers get a say in state planning.
One thing to notice
Equipment makers now have a formal role in state energy security planning. The law ends on September 30, 2031.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 3 Republicans, 1 Democrats.
- Jan 27, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 27, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy”
- Feb 4, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- May 11, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 561”
- Jun 29, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4296)”
- Jun 29, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
14 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 16 reports from Mar 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $49,438,610 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 52 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 94% of bills with any report.
Robert Latta, who sponsored the bill, received $908,626 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $36,700,000 in 2 reports
- Edison Electric Institute — $4,248,610 in 2 reports
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company — $3,530,000 in 1 report
- Duke Energy Corporation — $2,280,000 in 1 report
- National Electrical Manufacturers Association — $650,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- energy security plans — State plans to keep power systems safe from damage and attacks.
- cyber attacks — Attacks on computer systems that control power lines and equipment.
- recover — Get power back on after lines fail or are damaged.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (4,912 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,938 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Mar 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-05.
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