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H.R. 9340119th CongressEnergy
Ratepayer Protection Act
Sponsored by Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) · 42 active : 35 Republicans, 7 Democrats
Latest action: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (CR S5199)
Where it standsBefore the House22 representatives score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedSep 16, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govRatepayer Protection Act
The bill requires state utility regulators and nonregulated utilities to consider implementing a standard to hold certain large-load customers responsible for the costs associated with any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade of electric service necessary to serve such customers. A
large-load customer
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means a non-residential electric consumer that enters, or requests to enter, an agreement concerning the sale of electric energy primarily to operate information technology infrastructure and related systems pertaining to data storage and computational applications and services (e.g., data centers) that have a peak electric demand of 100 megawatts or more at a single site or campus.
Specifically, the bill requires states to consider implementing a federal standard for large-load customers. The standard must require rates charged by electric utilities for providing electric service to a large-load customer to be designed to recover from the large-load customer the full, incremental cost of any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade necessary to serve such customer. This rate must include the costs that would be incurred if the large-load customer terminates an agreement with the electric utility pertaining to the sale of electric energy or otherwise ceases the purchase of energy from the electric utility.
Under the standard, an electric utility must require the large-load customer to provide to the utility financial assurances or contributions to cover the cost of any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade that is necessary to serve the load of a large-load customer before the utility makes any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Energy · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Energy efficiency and conservation
- Energy prices
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
- Federal preemption
- Intergovernmental relations
- Public utilities and utility rates
- State and local government operations
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 64Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score. The bill is not before the Senate right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
42 activeShow all 42 cosponsors
- Kathy Castor (D-FL-14)
- Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-2)
- John Joyce (R-PA-13)
- Michael Baumgartner (R-WA-5)
- Michael T. McCaul (R-TX-10)
- Clay Fuller (R-GA-14)
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1)
- Robert F. Onder (R-MO-3)
- Derrick Van Orden (R-WI-3)
- Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY-AL)
- John J. McGuire (R-VA-5)
- Thomas H. Kean (R-NJ-7)
- H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9)
- Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA-7)
- Sanford D. Bishop (D-GA-2)
- Jennifer L. McClellan (D-VA-4)
- Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5)
- Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28)
- Laurel M. Lee (R-FL-15)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
