Data Center Fair Share Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 10322 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 10322 To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish Federal standards relating to the recovery of the full, incremental costs of upgrades that serve large-load customers, and to withhold highway funds from States that do not implement such standards, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 8, 2026 Mr. Subramanyam introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish Federal standards relating to the recovery of the full, incremental costs of upgrades that serve large-load customers, and to withhold highway funds from States that do not implement such standards, 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 ``Data Center Fair Share Act''. SEC. 2. FEDERAL STANDARDS RELATING TO LARGE-LOAD CUSTOMERS. (a) Federal Standards 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 t