S. 5028 · 119th Congress · pending

Ratepayer Protection Act

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Latest official action 2026-07-16 · Referred

The bill, briefly

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 elect…

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Congressional Research Service · 2026-07-16

Who reported lobbying on this bill?

Amount spent specifically on this bill: not disclosed

The reports below name this bill and disclose an organization’s overall lobbying expenses or a firm’s client income for the period. They can cover many bills and issues. These amounts are not payments to the bill or its politicians.

EATON CORPORATION

Registrant: EATON CORPORATION · 2026 3rd Quarter (July 1 - Sep 30)

$220,000

Total organization expenses, all reported topics

Energy/Nuclear

S 488 Circuit Act HR 1 One Big Beautiful Bill Issues related energy tax credits Sec 232 and IEEPA Tariffs S. 5028 Ratepayer Protection Act for Data Center sustainability S. 2026 Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 - federal permitting bill

Lobbyists named: NICHOLAS E. D'ANGELO

Congress inferred from reporting year; verify the bill reference in the source.

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2,409 latest lobbying reports imported. Some source imports are still in progress.

Politicians behind the bill

Sponsors and cosponsors from the official source, limited to members currently in office. Campaign amounts are cycle-wide and are not payments for this bill.

Sponsor

Jon Husted

Senate · OH · Republican

$2,579,111PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Tommy Tuberville

Senate · AL · Republican

-$6,500PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Ashley Moody

Senate · FL · Republican

$2,226,169PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Pete Ricketts

Senate · NE · Republican

$1,927,397PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Roger Marshall

Senate · KS · Republican

$1,702,385PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

John Kennedy

Senate · LA · Republican

$113,800PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Susan M. Collins

Senate · ME · Republican

$2,384,579PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Darline Graham

Senate · SC · Republican

Not availablePAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Tom Cotton

Senate · AR · Republican

$1,221,200PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

John Hoeven

Senate · ND · Republican

$270,475PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Katie Boyd Britt

Senate · AL · Republican

$477,300PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

John Cornyn

Senate · TX · Republican

$1,943,978PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Joni Ernst

Senate · IA · Republican

$328,620PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Alan Armstrong

Senate · OK · Republican

Not availablePAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Bill Hagerty

Senate · TN · Republican

$1,546,406PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Todd Young

Senate · IN · Republican

$715,270PAC receipts · 2025–2026

Cosponsor

Deb Fischer

Senate · NE · Republican

$357,755PAC receipts · 2025–2026

16 of 16 source cosponsor records retrieved; only current officials and unwithdrawn sponsorships appear.

PAC donors to the listed sponsors

These are all-cycle contributions to the listed sponsors’ and cosponsors’ campaigns. FEC does not attribute them to this bill. A donation plus sponsorship does not establish why a politician acted.

TOMORROW IS MEANINGFUL PAC$100,000

Jon Husted · Sponsor · $10,000

Tommy Tuberville · Cosponsor · $5,000

Ashley Moody · Cosponsor · $10,000

Pete Ricketts · Cosponsor · $10,000

Roger Marshall · Cosponsor · $10,000

Susan M. Collins · Cosponsor · $10,000

Tom Cotton · Cosponsor · $10,000

John Cornyn · Cosponsor · $15,000

Joni Ernst · Cosponsor · $10,000

Bill Hagerty · Cosponsor · $10,000

The bill, briefly

Who reported lobbying on this bill?

EATON CORPORATION

Politicians behind the bill

Jon Husted

Tommy Tuberville

Ashley Moody

Pete Ricketts

Roger Marshall

John Kennedy

Susan M. Collins

Darline Graham

Tom Cotton

John Hoeven

Katie Boyd Britt

John Cornyn

Joni Ernst

Alan Armstrong

Bill Hagerty

Todd Young

Deb Fischer

PAC donors to the listed sponsors

What happened after enactment?