House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Lowering Utility Bills Act
Official title: To amend the Federal Power Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require investor owned electric utilities and gas utilities and transmission providers to, when establishing or calculating a return on equity, establish or calculate the return on equity at the lowest return on equity in an established range of reasonableness, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Greg Casar D-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 29, 2026
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Latest action: Apr 29, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8568.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CASAR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 75, April 29, 2026, Page H3295):Article 1 of the US ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 29, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
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- 32 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8568, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8568
- 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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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
27 cosponsors — 27 Democrats
0 of 27 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Judy Chu (D-CA), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Al Green (D-TX), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Henry Johnson (D-GA), John Mannion (D-NY), April McClain Delaney (D-MD), Christian Menefee (D-TX), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Frank Mrvan (D-IN), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Emily Randall (D-WA), Josh Riley (D-NY), Patrick Ryan (D-NY), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Frederica Wilson (D-FL).
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 10538 (119th) Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act of 2026
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.