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House Bill 9340
119th Congress(2025-2026)
Ratepayer Protection Act
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Amendments
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Passed House on Sep 16, 2026
Overview
Text
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The bill aims to establish federal standards concerning large-load customers' electric service rates and upgrades. It requires recovery of full upgrade costs from large-load customers. Additionally, large-load customers must provide financial assurances for upgrades. The bill defines large-load customers as non-residential electric consumers needing power primarily for information technology infrastructure, having a peak demand of 100 megawatts or more. The bill mandates state regulatory authorities and nonregulated utilities to consider and determine the standards set for large-load customers within specific time frames. It further addresses prior state actions regarding these standards. Additionally, it affects prior and pending proceedings relating to these standards.

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Sponsor
Introduced
Jun 18, 2026
Latest Action
Sep 30, 2026
Origin Chamber
House
Type
Bill
Bill
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Bill Number
9340
Congress
119
Policy Area
Energy
Energy
Primary focus of measure is all sources and supplies of energy, including alternative energy sources, oil and gas, coal, nuclear power; efficiency and conservation; costs, prices, and revenues; electric power transmission; public utility matters.
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House Votes (1)
Senate Votes (1)
checkPassed on September 16, 2026
Question
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
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Passed
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Roll Call Vote
A vote that records the individual position of each Member who voted. Such votes occurring on the House floor (by the "yeas and nays" or by "recorded vote") are taken by electronic device. The Senate has no electronic voting system; in such votes, Senators answer "yea" or "nay" as the clerk calls each name aloud. Each vote is compiled by clerks and receives a roll call number (referenced in Congress.gov as a "Record Vote" [Senate] or "Roll no." [House]).
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Summary

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.

Text (4)
September 24, 2026
September 16, 2026
September 10, 2026
June 18, 2026
Amendments (4)
Displaying only amendments with a detailed public record (0)
09/30/2026
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (CR S5199)
09/30/2026
Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 57 - 43. Record Vote Number: 254.
09/30/2026
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S5199)
09/29/2026
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
09/28/2026
Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S5065)
09/28/2026
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S5065)
09/24/2026
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 684.
09/23/2026
Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
09/17/2026
Received in the Senate.
09/16/2026
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
09/16/2026
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)
09/16/2026
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)
09/16/2026
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5958-5959)
09/15/2026
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.
09/15/2026
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 9340.
09/15/2026
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5656-5661)
09/15/2026
Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
09/10/2026
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 713.
09/10/2026
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-814.
07/21/2026
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 52 - 0.
07/21/2026
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
07/20/2026
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
06/24/2026
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
06/24/2026
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
06/18/2026
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
06/18/2026
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
06/18/2026
Introduced in House
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H.R.9340 119 Ratepayer Protection Act
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