H.R. 8568
119th Congress
House
Lowering Utility Bills Act
Official title: To amend the Federal Power Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require investor owned electric utilities and gas utilities and transm… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend the Federal Power Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require investor owned electric utilities and gas utilities and transmission providers to, when establishing or calculating a return on equity, establish or calculate the return on equity at the lowest return on equity in an established range of reasonableness, and for other purposes.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 29, 2026
Introduced in House
Apr 29, 2026
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Bill text
1 version
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Lobbying activity
23
- EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE
- PUGET SOUND ENERGY
- XCEL ENERGY, INC
- PPL CORPORATION
- CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC
- PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
- Energy, Dept of
- Treasury, Dept of
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- White House Office
- Interior, Dept of (DOI)
Cosponsors
27
D
Chu, Judy
D
Wilson, Frederica S.
D
Escobar, Veronica
D
Frost, Maxwell
D
Randall, Emily
D
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
D
Ansari, Yassamin
D
Foushee, Valerie P.
D
García, Jesús G. "Chuy"
D
Goldman, Daniel S.
D
Goodlander, Maggie
D
Green, Al
D
Grijalva, Adelita S.
D
Johnson, Henry C. "Hank"
D
Mannion, John W.
D
McClain Delaney, April
D
Menefee, Christian D.
D
Mfume, Kweisi
D
Mrvan, Frank J.
D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
D
Riley, Josh
D
Ryan, Patrick
D
Simon, Lateefah
D
Subramanyam, Suhas
D
Thanedar, Shri
D
Tlaib, Rashida
D
Watson Coleman, Bonnie
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 8568: Lowering Utility Bills Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8568/
"H.R. 8568: Lowering Utility Bills Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8568/.
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