Bill lets small oil plants use less biofuel.
H.R. 1346 — Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025 · Filed by Adrian Smith (R-NE) · 55 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 13, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill changes fuel rules to help small oil plants. Starting in 2028, small plants can blend less biofuel into gas. Plants that might close can ask to skip biofuel rules. The EPA must update rules for E15 fuel within 18 months. E15 is gas mixed with 10 to 15 percent corn fuel.
Who it affects
Small oil plants and corn fuel makers gain the most. Drivers might see more E15 fuel choices at pumps. Big oil plants must blend more biofuel to make up the gap.
One thing to notice
The bill cuts biofuel rules for small plants by 75 percent. It does not erase the rule. Small plants that stay small keep the cut all the time. This could push them to make less fuel.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
55 cosponsors: 37 Republicans, 18 Democrats.
- Feb 13, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 13, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
- May 13, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 203 (Roll no. 164).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
51 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 66 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $22,589,606 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 5 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 99% of bills with any report.
Adrian Smith, who sponsored the bill, received $1,380,750 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Petroleum Institute — $4,700,000 in 2 reports
- Koch Government Affairs, LLC — $2,760,000 in 1 report
- Growth Energy Inc — $2,170,000 in 3 reports
- Chevron U.S.A. Inc. — $1,670,000 in 1 report
- Phillips 66 — $1,320,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- biofuel — Fuel made from plants like corn, not from oil.
- E15 — Gas mixed with 10 to 15 percent corn fuel.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (12,547 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 25, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-22.
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