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HR 5062 Advanced toward a vote

Requires the Transportation Security Administration to keep responsibility for securing pipelines and pipeline facilities against cyber threats, terrorism, and other security threats, and writes that duty into the 9/11 Commission Act.

Official title: Pipeline Security Act

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced 29-AUG-2025
Referred 29-AUG-2025
Approved by committee 03-SEP-2025
Reported 12-NOV-2025
On the calendar 12-NOV-2025
Key points
  • Adds Section 1559 to the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, directing the TSA Administrator to maintain pipeline security responsibility in consultation with CISA as appropriate.
  • Requires TSA to develop and update security guidelines aligned with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, issue security directives and regulations, share threat information, inspect operators' security practices, and rank pipeline security risks.
  • Requires TSA to hold at least one industry day with pipeline stakeholders within one year of enactment, and to report to Congress biennially on its pipeline security activities.
  • Requires TSA to develop a personnel strategy within 180 days of enactment, covering cybersecurity expertise and resources, and directs the Comptroller General to review implementation within two years.
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Official CRS summary

Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Reported to House, 12-NOV-2025).

CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov
Committee referrals (2) Policy area

Transportation and Public Works

Sponsor Julie Johnson (D-TX) Cosponsors · 2
■ 1 R■ 1 D
1 Democrat
1 Republican