H.R. 3632 · 119th Congress · Energy
Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Dec 16, 2025
Roll call ↗222
202
Passed the House.
Passed the House on December 16, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- IntroducedMay 29, 2025
- CommitteeSep 23, 2025
- Passed HouseDec 16, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 4
- all Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Lobbying
- At least 22
- organizations named it2025 Q2 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The bill rewrites Section 207 of the Federal Power Act to let the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission require power plants to keep running and to require years of advance notice before a plant retires.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, December 16, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
The bill rewrites Section 207 of the Federal Power Act to let the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission require power plants to keep running and to require years of advance notice before a plant retires. When a state commission or Transmission Organization complains that interstate service is inadequate, or likely to become inadequate within five years, the Commission must determine adequate service and may issue an order requiring an electric generating unit to continue operating. Such an order cannot compel building new generating facilities but must set a rate or charge to compensate the owner for the added costs of continued operation. Orders last no longer than five years and may be extended for up to another five years on request. An action taken to comply with such an order that causes noncompliance with a federal, state, or local environmental law is shielded from being treated as a violation and from civil, criminal, or citizen-suit liability under that environmental law. Separately, an owner or operator planning to retire a generating unit of at least 5 megawatts connected to the bulk-power system must notify the Commission and affected state commissions at least five years in advance, except for retirements caused by unplanned catastrophe or emergency; the Commission must make each notice public.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 22 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 104 quarterly reports filed by 2 lobbying firms and by 22 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA); Itc Holdings Corp; Americans for Prosperity; CMS Energy Corp; Edison Electric Institute. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 17 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.