{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-3628","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 3628","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to add a standard related to State consideration of reliable generation, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to add a standard related to State consideration of reliable generation, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act"},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to add a standard related to State consideration of reliable generation, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-05-29","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-12-11","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h323","question":"On Passage","title":"State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act","result":"Passed","yea":218,"nay":207,"present":0,"not_voting":8,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll323.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.","date":"2025-12-15"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-09-19","stage":"Reported to House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill requires certain state authorities that regulate electric utilities to consider the establishment of measures regarding the reliable availability of electricity over specified time periods. These requirements would apply to electric utilities that use integrated resource plans—plans that project future electricity use to ensure resource adequacy, as opposed to utilities that rely on capacity markets, which use price trends for resource planning."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, the state authorities must consider requiring the integrated resource plans of electric utilities to include measures to ensure the reliable availability of electric energy over a 10-year period to maintain the operation of reliable generation facilities or the procurement of electric energy from reliable generation facilities."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill defines reliable generation facilities as facilities that"},{"k":"li","t":"enable the generation of electric energy on a continuous basis over a period of not fewer than 30 days;","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"have adequate fuel or a continuously available energy source on-site to enable the continuous generation of electric energy for at least 30 days, or have contractual obligations that achieve the same;","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"have operational characteristics to enable the generation of electric energy during emergency and severe weather conditions; and","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"provide services such as frequency support and voltage support.","d":1}],"words":202},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to add a standard on measures for the reliable availability of electric energy in the integrated resource planning of State regulated electric utilities, and directs a Government Accountability Office report.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628/text/eh#H81794E6EEDA14519895565208E1A006D"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628/text/eh#H69B3078A9B734B6C8560B0CC0E3C1E34"}]},"core_areas":["Reliable generation measures in State utility integrated resource planning","State regulatory authority deadlines to consider the new standard","Comptroller General report on integrated resource planning"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires each State regulated electric utility that employs integrated resource planning to establish measures, sufficient to ensure reliable availability of electric energy over a 10-year period, to maintain operation of or procurement from reliable generation facilities.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628/text/eh#H81794E6EEDA14519895565208E1A006D"}},{"text":"Defines a reliable generation facility by four traits: ability to generate continuously for not fewer than 30 days, on-site fuel or contracted fuel supply for that period, ability to generate in emergency and severe weather conditions, and frequency and voltage support.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628/text/eh#H81794E6EEDA14519895565208E1A006D"}},{"text":"Requires each State regulatory authority to commence consideration of the standard or set a hearing date within 1 year after enactment, and to complete consideration and make its determination within 2 years after enactment.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628/text/eh#H81794E6EEDA14519895565208E1A006D"}},{"text":"Provides that these consideration requirements do not apply to a utility if, before enactment, the State implemented the standard or a comparable one, held a proceeding on it, or had its legislature vote on it within the prior 3 years.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628/text/eh#H81794E6EEDA14519895565208E1A006D"}},{"text":"Requires the Comptroller General to submit to Congress, within 1 year after enactment, a report on how effective integrated resource planning by State regulated electric utilities was, before the new standard, in ensuring sufficient reliable generation facilities.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628/text/eh#H69B3078A9B734B6C8560B0CC0E3C1E34"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628/text/eh#H81794E6EEDA14519895565208E1A006D"},"heading":"State consideration of reliable generation","effect":"Adds a reliable-generation planning standard for State regulated electric utilities, and exempts from the State consideration deadlines any utility in a State that already implemented, considered, or voted on the standard or a comparable one.","amount":null,"quote":"shall not apply to the standard established by paragraph (22) of section 111(d) in the case of any State regulated electric utility in a State if, before the date of enactment of this subsection"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-12-11","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-12","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-3628.png","v":"4dae812bf9ee","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 3628, 119th Congress: State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act. House: 218 Yea, 207 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 11 Dec 2025."}}