Today the House took up HR 5078, the Protecting Information by Local Leaders for Agency Resilience (PILLAR) Act, under the suspension of the rules process. After just 13 minutes of debate, the House passed the bill by a voice vote.
The bill would reauthorize CISA’s State and local cybersecurity grant program through 2035 (that program expired on September 30th, 2025, but was subsequently reinstated through January 30th, 2026 by HR 5371, the FY 2026 CR), including updating 6 USC 665g. Changes include clarifying that the grant program could be used to support operational technology, as well as information systems. There is no specific funding provided in this reauthorization, instead the funding would be “subject to the availability of appropriations”.
The Senate is unlikely to take up this bill under regular
order; it is not politically important enough to be worth the legislative time
that it would take to pass that bill. There is a possibility that the bill
could be considered under the Senate’s unanimous consent process, but objections
filed under that process frequently have nothing to do with the merits of the
bill. The only other route to the President's desk would be through inclusion in another, must pass bill.
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