Ratepayer Protection Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 9340 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9340 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. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 18, 2026 Mr. Evans of Colorado (for himself and Ms. Castor of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL 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. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Ratepayer Protection Act''. SEC. 2. FEDERAL STANDARD RELATING TO LARGE-LOAD CUSTOMERS. (a) Federal Standard Relating to Large-load Customers.--Section 111(d) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2621(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``(22) Standards for large-load customers.-- ``(A) Recovery of full, incremental cost of upgrades.--A rate charged, or entered into, by an electric utility for providing electric service to a large-load customer shall be designed to recover from the large-load customer the full, incremental cost of any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade necessary to serve the load of such large-load customer, including in the event of such large-load customer terminating a contract or other agreement with the electric utility pertaining to the sale of electric energy, or otherwise ceasing the purchase of