Ratepayer Protection Act

What this measure contains

Ratepayer 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 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.

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• Placed on Calendar Senate · Official document ↗· Sep 24, 2026
• Engrossed in House · Official document ↗· Sep 16, 2026
• Reported in House · Official document ↗· Sep 10, 2026
• Introduced in House · Official document ↗· Jun 18, 2026

Legislative path

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1. Introduced in House
2. Reported in House
3. Engrossed in Houseby House suspend rules and pass
4. Placed on Calendar Senate

Decision stages

1. Sep 16, 2026 · House

   House suspend rules and pass on Reported in House: Passed, reported as Engrossed in House

   417 aye · 3 no · 12 not voting · Source roll call

2. Sep 30, 2026 · Senate

   Senate cloture to proceed on Placed on Calendar Senate: Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected

   57 aye · 43 no · Source roll call

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House members along the path

Aye yea or aye · No nay or no · Present · NV not voting · Changed reversed on advancing the measure

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Legislative history

1. Jun 18, 2026

   Introduced in House

2. Jun 18, 2026

   Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

3. Jun 18, 2026

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.

4. Jun 24, 2026

   Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

5. Jun 24, 2026

   Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.

6. Jul 20, 2026

   Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

7. Jul 21, 2026

   Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

8. Jul 21, 2026

   Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 52 - 0.

9. Sep 10, 2026

   Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-814.

10. Sep 10, 2026

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 713.

11. Sep 15, 2026

    Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

12. Sep 15, 2026

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5656-5661)

13. Sep 15, 2026

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 9340.

14. Sep 15, 2026

    At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.

15. Sep 16, 2026

    Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5958-5959)

16. Sep 16, 2026

    Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 417 - 3 (Roll no. 312). (text: CR H5656-5657)

17. Sep 16, 2026

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 417 - 3 (Roll no. 312). (text: CR H5656-5657)

18. Sep 16, 2026

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

19. Sep 17, 2026

    Received in the Senate.

20. Sep 23, 2026

    Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

21. Sep 24, 2026

    Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 684.

22. Sep 28, 2026

    Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S5065)

23. Sep 28, 2026

    Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S5065)

24. Sep 29, 2026

    Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.

25. Sep 30, 2026

    Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S5199)

26. Sep 30, 2026

    Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 57 - 43. Record Vote Number: 254.

27. Sep 30, 2026

    Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (CR S5199)

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