Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
The bill funds broad improvements to military readiness, health care, industrial base resilience, and technology adoption—but does so at the cost of higher federal spending, increased administrative and reporting burdens, privacy and oversight risks, and potential supply‑chain and competition tradeoffs.
Energy Threat Analysis Center Act of 2026
The bill strengthens nationwide energy‑sector cybersecurity through a centralized analytic center, funding, and faster public‑private contracting, but does so while reducing transparency and external oversight and creating risks that smaller providers may be left behind.
Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity Act
The bill provides targeted federal funding and assistance to strengthen cybersecurity at rural, municipal, and small utilities—improving sector resilience—while reducing transparency through FOIA exemptions, risking uneven allocation of support, and imposing modest federal budget costs.
Energy Emergency Leadership Act
The bill improves local and federal ability to detect and respond to energy threats by centralizing DOE responsibility and ensuring interagency coordination, but does so at the cost of greater federal commitments, potential local dependency on federal help, and increased federal involvement in private infrastructure operations.
SECURE Grid Act
The bill improves preparedness, local‑distribution reliability, supply‑chain resilience, and federal accountability for energy security, but it does so at the cost of added state and utility compliance expenses, a potential reduction in federal flexibility, a time‑limited authority that creates planning uncertainty, and tradeoffs between sharing sensitive security information and public transparency.
Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Evaluation Act of 2026
The bill directs GAO to identify Federal cybersecurity help and financing gaps for small businesses—improving information for owners and policymakers—while simultaneously prohibiting new appropriations, meaning it informs but does not by itself fund or deliver remedies.
Safe Cloud Storage Act
The bill strengthens secure, audited storage and custody of digital child sexual-abuse evidence to aid investigations and protect victims, while creating privacy risks, reduced vendor incentives to prevent misuse, higher domestic-data costs, and additional administrative burdens.
Digital Asset Market Clarity Act
The bill provides comprehensive regulatory clarity, stronger consumer disclosures, AML controls, and operational standards for digital assets—tradeoffs include higher compliance costs, new privacy/surveillance risks, potential chilling effects on innovation, narrowed investor remedies, and concentrated market power that may shift costs and risks onto consumers and taxpayers.
PIPELINE Safety Act of 2025
The bill boosts pipeline safety and modernization—providing funding, improved oversight, technical studies, and new inspection tools—while increasing federal spending, imposing significant compliance and administrative burdens, and narrowing public access to some safety information, trading faster modernization and industry cooperation against higher costs and reduced transparency/accountability.
Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.
The bill increases DHS transparency, detainee protections, targeted operational funding, and training controls—but it also imposes heavy new oversight/reporting rules, procurement and operational limits, and some rescissions that could slow emergency response, raise administrative costs, and reduce program flexibility.
First Responder Network Authority Reauthorization Act of 2026
The bill strengthens oversight, transparency, and first-responder protections for the nationwide public-safety broadband network—improving outage detection, planning, and governance—but does so by centralizing authority and adding compliance requirements that could slow some decisions and raise costs for contractors, governments, and taxpayers.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill boosts oversight, targeted defense and foreign-aid investments, and health and program transparency, but does so by locking funds into many earmarks and reporting mandates that increase administrative costs, reduce executive flexibility, raise near‑term taxpayer obligations, and constrain federal personnel and agency responsiveness.
Remote Access Security Act
The bill tightens export controls and enforcement around foreign remote access to better protect national security and increase oversight, while imposing meaningful compliance costs, potential operational disruptions for international users, and risks of chilling legitimate activity.
Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act
The bill aims to save taxpayer money and improve government IT interoperability, security, and procurement transparency by standardizing software inventories and controls—but doing so requires near‑term agency costs, added administrative burdens, possible operational delays, and uncertain funding for implementation.
Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization Act
The bill strengthens coordinated U.S. enforcement, sanctions, and victim‑centered responses to disrupt international scam compounds and compensate victims, but does so at the cost of higher federal spending, compliance burdens, diplomatic friction, legal/due‑process risks, and uncertainty from a seven‑year sunset.
SBA IT Modernization Reporting Act
The bill strengthens SBA IT project management and cybersecurity oversight—improving accountability and reducing tech failures—at the cost of added administrative burden and potential procurement delays, with a risk that compliance-focused implementation could limit real improvements.
Generative AI Terrorism Risk Assessment Act
The bill improves federal and local awareness, transparency, and coordination to address GenAI-enabled terrorist threats—strengthening preparedness and enabling countermeasures—while risking resource diversion, civil‑liberties concerns, operational exposure, and limited follow-through without dedicated funding.
PILLAR Act
The bill meaningfully strengthens cybersecurity and inclusion for state and local systems but shifts ongoing costs, tightens procurement rules, and may complicate or slow implementation for local governments and communities.
Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act
The bill strengthens and centralizes federal efforts and provides targeted risk assessments to better defend U.S. critical infrastructure from PRC-linked cyber threats, but it does so with reduced transparency, potential limits on sharing classified information with operators, added costs, and a narrow focus on a single adversary.
Department of Homeland Security Vehicular Terrorism Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2025
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill prioritizes a broad strengthening of U.S. defense, industrial capacity, allied partnerships, and domestic housing/disaster programs—delivering tangible benefits to service members, veterans, and vulnerable communities—while imposing substantial new spending, administrative burdens, supply‑chain/research restrictions, and civil‑liberties and environmental tradeoffs for Americans.
ANCHOR Act
The bill modernizes and standardizes definitions, oversight, and cybersecurity for the U.S. research fleet—improving safety, data access, and funding predictability—at the cost of new compliance and administrative requirements, possible centralization risks, and financial burdens that may disproportionately affect smaller or nontraditional research operators.
Undersea Cable Control Act
The bill tightens protections and oversight for undersea cable supply chains and increases transparency to bolster national security, while imposing compliance and export constraints that could raise costs, complicate procurement, and delay projects.
Telecom Cybersecurity Transparency Act
The bill increases timely transparency of CISA's unclassified telecom-vulnerability findings to help defenders and public oversight, at the risk of exposing exploitable details to attackers and imposing administrative burdens on DHS/CISA.
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
The bill invests significantly in Coast Guard capacity, safety, victim support, oversight, and modernization—but those gains come with higher federal costs, substantial new administrative requirements, privacy and readiness risks, and potential compliance burdens for mariners and partners.
Financial Technology Protection Act of 2025
GENIUS Act
The bill creates a comprehensive federal framework that raises consumer protections, stability, AML controls, and technical standards for payment stablecoins, but it centralizes issuance and custody with larger regulated institutions, increases compliance and surveillance costs, and risks reduced competition, privacy, and temporary access during emergencies.
Communications Security Act
The bill creates a permanent, expert-informed advisory council to strengthen communications security and interoperability while concentrating appointment power in the FCC Chair and reducing periodic oversight, trading broader security coordination for increased risk of politicized membership and weaker external review.
NTIA Policy and Cybersecurity Coordination Act
The bill creates a new NTIA office to expand rural broadband, improve network security, and accelerate tech commercialization, at the trade‑off of potential industry‑tilted policymaking, centralized federal influence, privacy risks from published data, and added taxpayer costs.
Promoting United States Wireless Leadership Act of 2025
The bill boosts U.S. coordination and security-focused influence in global wireless standards, but does so by excluding some firms, risking politicized disputes with partners, and imposing modest taxpayer costs.
