Ratepayer Protection Act
Official title: To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal standard relating to the recovery of the full, incremental costs of upgrades… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal standard relating to the recovery of the full, incremental costs of upgrades that serve large-load customers, and for other purposes.
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| Date | Chamber | What was voted on | Result | Yes–No | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2026 | Senate · vote #254 | On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed H.R. 9340 | Rejected | 57–43 | See who voted → |
| Sep 16, 2026 | House · vote #312 | On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended | Passed | 417–3 | See who voted → |
Amendments propose changes to this bill. Members vote on amendments separately before the final bill vote. An agreed amendment becomes part of the bill; a failed amendment does not.
| Amendment | Sponsor | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SAMDT 6,846 | Gallego, Ruben | Pending |
| SAMDT 6,845 | Markey, Edward J. | Pending |
| SAMDT 6,840 | Van Hollen, Chris | Pending |
| SAMDT 6,837 | Warner, Mark R. | Pending |
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Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate.
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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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 9340: Ratepayer Protection Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-9340/
"H.R. 9340: Ratepayer Protection Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-9340/.
H.R. 9340, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-9340/.
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