Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Hydropower Licensing Transparency Act
Official title: A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to annually submit to Congress a report on the status of ongoing hydropower relicensing applications.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedDec 16, 2025
- Committee actionJun 10, 2026
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 10, 2026 — Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 3500.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 3500, Hydropower Licensing Transparency Act” on August 5, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on June 10, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 5, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62641
- CBO publication date
- August 5, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 3500, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/3500
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 10, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of October 8, 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.