Congress orders a study on U.S. oil refineries and their capacity.
H.R. 3109 — REFINER Act · Filed by Robert Latta (R-OH) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Apr 30, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill tells the Secretary of Energy to ask the National Petroleum Council to write a report. The report must be done in 90 days. It will look at U.S. oil refineries and how they help with energy. It will study how much they can make and ways to make more. It will look at what rules may have made them smaller. The report must say how to make refineries bigger. The report must be shared with the public.
Who it affects
Oil refinery companies will be studied. The public will get to read the report. The bill does not make new rules or give out money.
One thing to notice
The report will look at rules that made refineries smaller. It will suggest ways to make them bigger.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Apr 30, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Apr 30, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
- Jun 5, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jun 25, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 20”
- Nov 20, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 230 - 176 (Roll no. 303). (text: CR H4835)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
5 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 7 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $57,360,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 18 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 78% of bills with any report.
Robert Latta, who sponsored the bill, received $908,626 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $54,660,000 in 3 reports
- Phillips 66 — $1,320,000 in 1 report
- American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers — $1,160,000 in 1 report
- Pbf Holding Company LLC — $200,000 in 1 report
- County of Kern — $20,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Secretary of Energy — The government official in charge of energy policy and the Energy Department.
- National Petroleum Council — A group that gives advice to the government about oil and gas.
- capacity — How much a refinery can make or produce.
- 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 (1,507 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,938 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-05.
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