119th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 5028 — Ratepayer Protection Act

Introduced Jul 16, 2026
Last action Jul 16, 2026
Pipeline · Bill → Law
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Introduced
Jul 16, 2026
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Referred
Jul 16, 2026
Energy and Natural Resources
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Committee
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Senate
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House floor
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Resolve Changes
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Signed
SummaryCRS Summary

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...

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in Senate
AmendmentAI
Timeline · 2 actions
Jul 16, 2026
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Jul 16, 2026
Introduced in Senate
S. 5028: Ratepayer Protection Act | Docket