Bill changes how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's safe-reactor advisors work.
H.R. 9613 — Nuclear Advisory Committee Reform Act · Filed by Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jul 9, 2026 · Markup held
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What it does
The bill limits the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards to 15 members. Most members can serve two 4-year terms. The Commission can keep some members longer if needed. The Committee can only do work the Commission asks for. The Committee will focus on new reactor safety issues. Reports stay public.
Who it affects
The Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards is affected. Nuclear firms and reactor workers may be affected. The public relies on this Committee to check reactors.
One thing to notice
The bill requires the Commission to approve all Committee work. The Committee cannot start its own reviews without approval from the same group it is supposed to check.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jul 9, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 9, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
- Jul 14, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $660,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 66 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Diana Harshbarger, who sponsored the bill, received $710,520 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Americans for Prosperity — $660,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards — A group that reviews nuclear reactor safety for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission — The government group that makes rules for nuclear power plants.
- 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 (4,187 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 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 Jun 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 16, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-22.
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