States must plan for power plants that run 30 days without refueling.
H.R. 3628 — State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act · Filed by Gabe Evans (R-CO) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced May 29, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill changes how states plan for electricity supply. States must have power plants that can run 30 days straight. They need fuel stored on-site or contracts for fuel. States have 1 year to start this work and 2 years to finish. A study will check if this rule helps reliability and affordability.
Who it affects
States that plan their electricity supply are affected. Power companies that run plants are affected. People who pay for electricity are affected.
One thing to notice
The rule requires 30 days of fuel stored or contracted. Wind and solar plants do not store fuel on-site.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- May 29, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- May 29, 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: 25 - 23”
- Dec 11, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 207 (Roll no. 323)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
14 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 25 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $63,978,610 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 47 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 94% of bills with any report.
Gabe Evans, who sponsored the bill, received $1,500,967 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $54,660,000 in 3 reports
- Edison Electric Institute — $4,248,610 in 2 reports
- National Mining Association — $820,000 in 1 report
- National Grid USA — $780,000 in 2 reports
- Puget Sound Energy — $750,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- 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 (5,384 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 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-21.
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