BillTracking.org
Back to the feed

Home › US bills › H.R. 9340

United States

H.R. 9340

Ratepayer Protection Act

Energy and Commerce Committee · Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO)

Official summary (Congressional Research Service, Reported to House): 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.

Cloture not invoked (on taking up the bill) (57-43) 30 September 2026

Record as of 30 September 2026 — the most recent action in the official record. Status can lag; each step below carries its own date.

  1. 30 September 2026 Cloture not invoked (on taking up the bill) (57-43)

    What's next: Senate has not taken up the bill (60 votes not reached; a new vote can be sought)

  2. 1 more action
    1. 30 September 2026 Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (CR S5199)
  3. 30 September 2026 Motion to proceed filed
  4. 29 September 2026 Motion to proceed filed
  5. 28 September 2026 Cloture motion filed
  6. 28 September 2026 Motion to proceed filed
  7. 24 September 2026 Placed on calendar (Senate)
  8. 2 more actions
    1. 23 September 2026 Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
    2. 17 September 2026 Received in the Senate.
  9. 16 September 2026 Passed House with amendment (417-3)
  10. 6 more actions
    1. 16 September 2026 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
    2. 16 September 2026 Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5958-5959)
    3. 15 September 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.
    4. 15 September 2026 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 9340.
    5. 15 September 2026 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5656-5661)
    6. 15 September 2026 Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
  11. 10 September 2026 Reported by committee
  12. 10 September 2026 Placed on calendar (House)
  13. 5 more actions
    1. 21 July 2026 Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 52 - 0.
    2. 21 July 2026 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
    3. 20 July 2026 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
    4. 24 June 2026 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
    5. 24 June 2026 Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  14. 18 June 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy
  15. 18 June 2026 Referred to committee
  16. 18 June 2026 Introduced in House
This path starts where the bill does — its first action in the official record. Routine procedural steps sit in the “more actions” rows above rather than on the main line.

Read the live feed — on the site or in the app Find it on Congress.gov (opens in a new tab) All US bills