Small water and wastewater utilities would get a boost to their cybersecurity defenses under a bipartisan Senate bill that a pair of lawmakers re-introduced Thursday. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., are taking another swing at the Cybersecurity for Rural Water Systems Act after the legislation stalled out in the 118th Congress. The bill would update and expand the Department of Agriculture’s Circuit Rider Program, which provides technical assistance to rural water systems. The lawmakers’ legislation calls on the program to develop protocols to bolster water systems’ cyber defenses and provide additional aid to improve protections.