Energy Emergency Leadership Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Energy Emergency Leadership Act amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to add energy emergency and energy security functions to the responsibilities that may be assigned to DOE Assistant Secretaries. Those functions include energy infrastructure, security and resilience, emerging threats, cybersecurity, supply, emergency planning and preparedness, coordination, response, and restoration.
The bill also directs DOE, upon request from a state, local, or tribal government or an energy-sector entity, to provide technical assistance and support to protect against, detect, and respond to energy security threats, risks, and incidents. The Secretary of Energy must ensure those functions are performed in coordination with relevant federal agencies.
Who Benefits and How
State energy offices benefit because they can request DOE technical assistance for energy security threats and incidents. Local governments benefit from access to federal energy-emergency support for planning, detection, response, and restoration. Tribal governments benefit from explicit eligibility to request DOE energy-security technical assistance. Energy-sector entities benefit from DOE support on cybersecurity, infrastructure resilience, supply threats, and incident response. Energy consumers benefit if stronger coordination reduces outage or disruption risk.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DOE Assistant Secretaries assigned these functions must manage energy emergency, cybersecurity, resilience, supply, response, and restoration responsibilities. DOE energy-security staff must provide technical assistance to requesting governments and energy-sector entities. Relevant federal agencies must coordinate with DOE on overlapping emergency and security functions. Energy-sector entities requesting support may need to share incident, vulnerability, or operational information. State, local, and tribal governments may need to coordinate planning and response work with DOE.
Key Provisions
- Adds energy emergency and energy security functions to DOE Assistant Secretary responsibilities.
- Includes energy infrastructure, security, resilience, emerging threats, cybersecurity, and supply.
- Includes emergency planning, preparedness, coordination, response, and restoration.
- Provides DOE technical assistance to requesting state governments.
- Provides DOE technical assistance to requesting local and tribal governments.
- Provides DOE technical assistance to requesting energy-sector entities.
- Requires coordination with relevant federal agencies.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Assigns energy emergency and energy security responsibilities to Department of Energy Assistant Secretaries, including infrastructure security, resilience, cybersecurity, supply, emergency planning, preparedness, response, restoration, and technical assistance to requesting state, local, tribal, and energy-sector entities.
Key Policy Areas
Energy Security, Cybersecurity, Emergency Management, Department of Energy
Primary Purpose
Assigns energy emergency and energy security responsibilities to Department of Energy Assistant Secretaries, including infrastructure security, resilience, cybersecurity, supply, emergency planning, preparedness, response, restoration, and technical assistance to requesting state, local, tribal, and energy-sector entities.
Policy Domains
House resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- State energy offices
- Local governments
- Tribal governments
- Energy-sector entities
- Energy consumers
Identified Costs
- DOE Assistant Secretaries
- DOE energy-security staff
- Relevant federal agencies
- Energy-sector entities requesting support
- State governments requesting assistance
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedPlaced on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 562.
Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. …
Additional sponsors: Mr. Landsman, Mr. Balderson, and Mr. Onder
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the …
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
Introduced in House
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Ms. Lee of Florida (for herself and Mr. Walberg) introduced …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
DOE Assistant Secretaries, Energy-sector entities, State energy offices
Positive-direction: Energy-sector entities, State energy offices
Negative-direction: DOE Assistant Secretaries
Local governments requesting DOE support
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "doe"
- → Department of Energy
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Energy
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