SENATORS CORTEZ MASTO, MCCORMICK, HICKENLOOPER, HOEVEN, AND CURTIS INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO STRENGTHEN CYBERSECURITY FOR RURAL AND MUNICIPAL UTILITIES

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:

U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), and John Curtis (R-Utah) introduced the Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity Act, bipartisan legislation to reauthorize a critical federal grant program to help rural electric cooperatives and municipal utilities strengthen their cybersecurity defenses against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Cortez Masto originally helped create this grant program in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

The bill reauthorizes the Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity (RMUC) Grant and Technical Assistance Program at the Depart...