HR9340: Ratepayer Protection Act
119th Congress (2025–2027) · House bill · Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Gabe [R-CO-8]
119th Congress (2025–2027) · House bill · Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Gabe [R-CO-8]
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Roll-call votes | 2 |
| Chamber | House and Senate |
| Latest vote | 2026-09-30: Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (57-43, 3/5 majority required) |
| Latest action | 2026-09-30: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (CR S5199) |
| Policy area | Energy |
| Official record | Congress.gov |
Ratepayer Protection ActThe 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…
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
Every recorded vote on this bill, newest first, with a link to the official tally. Member-by-member positions are on each member’s profile.
| Date | Chamber | Question | Result | Yea | Nay | Not voting | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | Senate | On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed H. R. 9340 | Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (57-43, 3/5 majority required) | 56 | 42 | 0 | Official tally |
| 2026-09-16 | House | 2/3 Yea-And-Nay | Passed | 417 | 3 | 12 | Official tally |
HR9340 (Ratepayer Protection Act) was introduced in the 119th Congress (2025–2027) by Rep. Evans, Gabe [R-CO-8].
On 2026-09-30: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (CR S5199)
2 recorded votes in the 119th Congress. The most recent, on 2026-09-30, was "On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed H.R. 9340": Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (57-43, 3/5 majority required).