Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
FLOWS Act
Official title: A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to address certain alterations in, and the maintenance and repair of, project works, to provide for the licensing of micro hydrokinetic energy projects, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Lisa Murkowski R-AKWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 17, 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 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 3518.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 3518, FLOWS Act” on October 19, 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, October 19, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62869
- CBO publication date
- October 19, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 3518, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/3518
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of October 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 3518, last updated October 19, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved October 19, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
2 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 1 independent
1 of 2 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
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Related bills
- H.R. 9806 (119th) FLOWS ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 20, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.