U.S. Congress legislation · 119th Congress
HB10139: Ratepayer Bill of Rights Act of 2026
Status: In committee, August 24, 2026
To require public disclosure of electricity and water use, infrastructure costs, rate impacts, public financial assistance, and related commitments associated with large data centers, and for other purposes.
What the bill says
To require public disclosure of electricity and water use, infrastructure costs, rate impacts, public financial assistance, and related commitments associated with large data centers, and for other purposes.
From the introduced text, August 24, 2026:
A BILL To require public disclosure of electricity and water use, infrastructure costs, rate impacts, public financial assistance, and related commitments associated with large data centers, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ratepayer Bill of Rights Act of 2026 . SECTION 2. Ratepayer bill of rights (a) Findings (1) Data centers are driving rapidly growing demand for electricity and water, often with costs and impacts that are not disclosed to the families, farmers, ranchers, small businesses, and communities that bear them. This Act requires data centers to disclose their resource use, protects reliable and affordable electric and water service, and ensures that data centers pay their own costs. (2) This Act applies to a data center, or related group of data centers under common ownership or control, with a peak electricity demand of at least 50 megawatts or a water withdrawal of at least 100,000 gallons per day, including expansions that reach those levels. (b) Rights (1) Right one: to know a data center's demands Every ratepayer has the right to know a covered data center's projected and actual electricity and water use, sources, and wastewater discharge, disclosed before operations begin, reported every six months for electricity and every three months for water, with prompt notice of any material change. (2) …
Sponsors
- Henry Cuellar (D, HD-028) · primary sponsor
- Vicente Gonzalez (D, HD-034)
- Veronica Escobar (D, HD-016)
- Eugene Vindman (D, HD-007)
- Suhas Subramanyam (D, HD-010)
- Jasmine Crockett (D, HD-030)
Latest actions
- : Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- : Introduced in House
Subjects: Energy
Common questions
- What is HB10139?
- HB10139 is a bill in Congress (119th Congress): Ratepayer Bill of Rights Act of 2026.
- What does HB10139 do?
- In its own words: To require public disclosure of electricity and water use, infrastructure costs, rate impacts, public financial assistance, and related commitments associated with large data centers, and for other purposes.
- What is the status of HB10139?
- In committee as of August 24, 2026. Latest action: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (August 24, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB10139?
- Henry Cuellar (D, HD-028), with 5 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HB10139?
- On the Congress website: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10139
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