H.R. 4232: Ratepayer Fairness Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-12-10 · Energy · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

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Where it came from: introduced 2015-12-10 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

Ratepayer Fairness Act of 2015

Plain summary

Ratepayer Fairness Act of 2015 This bill amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to require a state regulatory authority and a nonregulated electric utility (entities), to the extent that they allow electric utility rates to include charges that subsidize customer-side technology, to consider whether that subsidy would: result in benefits predominately enjoyed by only the users of the customer-side technology; shift costs of a customer-side technology to electricity consumers that do not use it, particularly in cases in which disparate economic or resource conditions exist among the electricity consumers cross-subsidizing the customer-side technology; negatively affect resource utilization, fuel diversity, grid reliability, or grid security; give any unfair competitive advantage to market the customer-side technology, including an analysis of whether a state regulatory authority has uncovered fraudulent customer-side technology marketing practices; and be necessary to fulfill an obligation to serve electric consumers. The bill sets deadlines within which the entities must set a hearing date to consider and subsequently determine the subsidization of customer-side technology.

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Ratepayer Fairness Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Sponsor: Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4] · 0 cosponsors

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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114hr4232.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr>

Record fed-us-cong114-hr4232 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114