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Introduced

In Committee

3

Passed One Chamber

4

Passed Both

5

Signed into Law

Sponsor

Greg Landsman

Democrat · OH · Representative

Votes with party: 92.2% (604 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/L000601

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Cosponsors (18)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

Latest Action

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Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.

2026-06-24

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Committee Activity

Currently in

House Committee on Energy and CommerceReferred To · 2025-12-09

Previously

Energy and Commerce CommitteeReferred To · 2025-12-09

Plain-English Summary

This bill would likely limit or regulate how much electricity artificial intelligence data centers can use or how their energy costs are passed along to consumers and local communities. The goal appears to be protecting families from rising energy bills that could result from the massive power demands of AI operations. It would affect both the companies operating these data centers and the households in areas where they're built.

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Subjects

Energy

Full Bill Text

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 6529 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6529 To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to hold a technical conference on protecting residential ratepayers from increased costs associated with large loads, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 9, 2025 Mr. Landsman (for himself, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Norton, Mr. Levin, and Mr. Tonko) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to hold a technical conference on protecting residential ratepayers from increased costs associated with large loads, 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 ``Protecting Families from AI Data Center Energy Costs Act''. SEC. 2. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON INCREASED COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH LARGE LOADS. (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall hold a Commissioner-led technical conference with representatives from the Department of Energy, public utilities, transmission providers, State regulators, ratepayer advocates, large loads (including data centers used for artificial intelligence models), and such other participants as the Commission determines appropriate, on strategies and rate structures for protecting residential and small commercial ratepayers from increased costs associated with large loads. (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date on which the technical conference under subsection (a) concludes, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report containing recommendations and best practices resulting from such technical conference. <all>

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