States must plan to protect power lines from attacks.
S. 4166 — SECURE Grid Act · Filed by Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 24, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
This bill changes federal energy law. States must make plans to protect local power lines from physical attacks and cyberattacks. States must also plan for supply-chain problems. States must talk to equipment makers when they write these plans. The Government Accountability Office must report by 2030 on whether the plans work.
Who it affects
States must write and follow these plans. Everyone who uses electricity is affected. Equipment makers will be asked to help states plan.
One thing to notice
The bill requires states to plan but does not give them money. The planning requirement ends in 2031 unless Congress votes to keep it.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 1 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Mar 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Mar 24, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources”
- Sep 16, 2026 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held”
- Sep 30, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a…”
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 $0 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 7 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Catherine Cortez Masto, who sponsored the bill, received $298,634 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Association of State Energy Officials — $0 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- cyberattacks — Harmful computer attacks meant to damage or take over systems.
- Government Accountability Office — A federal agency that checks whether government programs work as planned.
- 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 (4,743 characters) on Aug 21, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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