House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Reliability for Ratepayers Act
Official title: To provide compensation flexibility to address retention and hiring issues at the Bonneville Power Administration.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 15, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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Latest action: Jan 15, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 447.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. PEREZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 8, January 15, 2025, Page H187):Article 1 of the US ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 15, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 32 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 447, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/447
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
7 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 5 Democrats
2 of 7 cosponsors (29%) are from the other party.
Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Emily Randall (D-WA), Andrea Salinas (D-OR), Kim Schrier (D-WA), Adam Smith (D-WA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Marie Perez.
- H.Res. 878 (119th) Disapproving the behavior of Representative Jesús G. Chuy García of Illinois.
- H.R. 1267 (119th) Water Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act
- H.R. 2220 (119th) PARA–EMT Act of 2025
- H.R. 1733 (119th) Rural Veterans Transportation to Care Act
- H.R. 4575 (119th) Jobs in the Woods Act
- H.R. 1889 (119th) Cutting Red Tape on Child Care Providers Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.