Congress demands plain-language electricity bills—what's really driving your costs
H.R. 9630 — BILL Drivers Act · Filed by Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jul 9, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill directs the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to analyze and publish a standardized report breaking down the components of residential and small-business electricity bills in each state over the past 7 years—showing how much of the bill comes from generation, transmission, distribution, taxes, and state policy costs like renewable energy mandates. The report must be published in consumer-friendly format on the EIA and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission websites within 180 days, with no authority to change actual rates or assign costs to utilities.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a data-collection and publication requirement. It mandates the EIA to disaggregate electricity cost components and publish them in standardized, consumer-friendly format—a transparency measure with no rate-setting or cost-assignment authority.
What the text implies
- By standardizing and publishing cost-component data, the bill may indirectly pressure utilities and regulators to justify state policy costs (e.g., renewable mandates, net metering) to consumers, potentially shifting political debate over energy policy.
- The requirement to distinguish federal, state, and local policy costs may expose the fiscal impact of state renewable energy and public-benefits programs, creating a baseline for future cost-control or policy-reform arguments.
- Data on large load additions (data centers) may inform future siting and infrastructure debates, but the bill does not restrict or regulate such loads—it only documents their cost impact.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Ordinary citizens and small businesses gain transparency into what drives their electricity costs—a foundational accountability tool for understanding bills and informing policy debate. The bill explicitly preserves existing ratemaking authority and does not alter rates, so it imposes no direct cost; it is purely informational and empowers consumers and policymakers with data.
Named in the bill
Energy Information Administration (EIA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs), Independent System Operators (ISOs), Electric Reliability Organization (ERO), Residential customers, Small business customers
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jul 9, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 9, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $70,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 50 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Ryan Mackenzie, the sponsor, reported $1,066,117 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Ppl Corporation — $70,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (9,007 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 Jun 2026 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 2026-10-20.
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