Ratepayer Bill of Rights Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 10139 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 10139 To require public disclosure of electricity and water use, infrastructure costs, rate impacts, public financial assistance, and related commitments associated with large data centers, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 24, 2026 Mr. Cuellar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require public disclosure of electricity and water use, infrastructure costs, rate impacts, public financial assistance, and related commitments associated with large data centers, 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 Bill of Rights Act of 2026''. SEC. 2. RATEPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS. (a) Findings.-- (1) Data centers are driving rapidly growing demand for electricity and water, often with costs and impacts that are not disclosed to the families, farmers, ranchers, small businesses, and communities that bear them. This Act requires data centers to disclose their resource use, protects reliable and affordable electric and water service, and ensures that data centers pay their own costs. (2) This Act applies to a data center, or related group of data centers under common ownership or control, with a peak electricity demand of at least 50 megawatts or a water withdrawal of at least 100,000 gallons per day, including expansio