{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-3632","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 3632","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend the Federal Power Act to adjust the requirements for orders, rules, and regulations relating to furnishing adequate service, to require owners or operators of generating facilities to provide notice of planned retirements of certain electric generating units, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend the Federal Power Act to adjust the requirements for orders, rules, and regulations relating to furnishing adequate service, to require owners or operators of generating facilities to provide notice of planned retirements of certain electric generating units, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025"},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To amend the Federal Power Act to adjust the requirements for orders, rules, and regulations relating to furnishing adequate service, to require owners or operators of generating facilities to provide notice of planned retirements of certain electric generating units, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-05-29","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-12-16","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h342","question":"On Passage","title":"Power Plant Reliability Act","result":"Passed","yea":222,"nay":202,"present":0,"not_voting":9,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll342.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":"2025-12-17"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2025-12-16","question":"On Motion to Recommit","title":"Power Plant Reliability Act","result":"Failed","yea":207,"nay":218,"present":0,"not_voting":8,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll341.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-09-23","stage":"Reported to House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill modifies the process that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) uses to determine, upon a complaint from a state commission, whether a public utility (i.e., power plant) must remain open because the retirement of the power plant will make the bulk power system unreliable, including by allowing transmission organizations to also file complaints with FERC."},{"k":"p","t":"If FERC finds that any interstate service of any public utility is inadequate or insufficient, or is likely to become inadequate or insufficient within five years of receiving such complaint, then FERC must determine the proper, adequate, or sufficient service to be furnished through an order, rule, or regulation (order)."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill specifies that FERC may order a power plant to remain open for up to five years. Any affected state commission, transmission organization, or power plant may request that FERC extend such order."},{"k":"p","t":"A FERC order must determine (1) any rate or charge necessary to provide compensation for the additional costs of the service, and (2) the cost allocation of any rate or charge."},{"k":"p","t":"A power plant owner or operator must notify FERC and affected state commissions or transmission organizations at least five years before any planned retirement of a unit of an electric generating facility except in the case of an emergency or similar event that renders a unit inoperable."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill exempts from federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations any action taken by a generating facility to comply with such orders."}],"words":249},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Rewrites section 207 of the Federal Power Act to set how the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders adequate interstate electric service, and to require advance notice of planned retirements of electric generating units.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3632/text/eh#H5760310721574C5882D033741585C3AF"}]},"core_areas":["Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders on adequacy of interstate electric service","Compensation and cost allocation for required generating unit operation","Advance notice of electric generating unit retirements","Treatment of environmental law noncompliance caused by compliance with these orders"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Directs the Commission, on complaint of a State commission or a Transmission Organization, to fix the service to be furnished by order, rule, or regulation when it finds interstate service of a public utility inadequate or likely to become so within 5 years.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3632/text/eh#H5760310721574C5882D033741585C3AF"}},{"text":"Allows the Commission to require that an electric generating unit continue operating and to require a long-term interstate transmission plan, but bars it from compelling the enlargement of generating facilities.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3632/text/eh#H5760310721574C5882D033741585C3AF"}},{"text":"Requires the Commission to determine any rate or charge needed to compensate the additional costs of the service, including compensation to owners or operators of units required to keep operating, and to determine the cost allocation.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3632/text/eh#H5760310721574C5882D033741585C3AF"}},{"text":"Ends each order no later than 5 years after it is issued, and lets an affected State commission, Transmission Organization, or public utility request an extension, which the Commission must accept or deny within 60 days of receipt.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3632/text/eh#H5760310721574C5882D033741585C3AF"}},{"text":"Requires an owner or operator planning to retire an electric generating unit to notify the Commission and any affected State commission or Transmission Organization at least 5 years ahead, except for retirements caused by an unplanned catastrophe, emergency, or disaster.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3632/text/eh#H5760310721574C5882D033741585C3AF"}},{"text":"Provides that an action or omission necessary to comply with such an order, including voluntary compliance, is not a violation of Federal, State, or local environmental law and does not create liability or a citizen suit under it.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3632/text/eh#H5760310721574C5882D033741585C3AF"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3632/text/eh#H5760310721574C5882D033741585C3AF"},"heading":"Furnishing of adequate service; advance notice of planned retirements","effect":"Within the rewritten section 207, provides that an action or omission needed to comply with a Commission order, rule, or regulation is not a violation of, and carries no liability under, Federal, State, or local environmental law, including citizen suits.","amount":null,"quote":"such omission or action shall not be considered a violation of such environmental law or regulation, or subject such party to any requirement, civil or criminal liability, or a citizen suit"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-12-16","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3632/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/3632","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3632/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-3632.png","v":"6c5b4bb59c14","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 3632, 119th Congress: Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025. House: 222 Yea, 202 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 16 Dec 2025."}}