Bill requires clear reports on what makes electricity bills cost so much.
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
The bill tells a government agency to study electricity bills in each state. It must cover the past 7 years. The report must show what parts of bills come from power, delivery, taxes, and state rules. The agency must publish this in plain language on two websites within 180 days. The bill does not change any actual bills.
Who it affects
People and small businesses see what costs them money on electricity bills. The bill does not change rates or cost anyone money.
One thing to notice
The bill publishes data but does not change any rules or rates.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
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 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $70,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 50 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Ryan Mackenzie, who sponsored the bill, received $1,045,117 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Ppl Corporation — $70,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- state rules — Laws made by states, such as rules about clean power sources.
- 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 (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 14,707 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 2026-09-23.
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