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Ratepayer Protection Act of 2015
(Sec. 2) This bill extends compliance deadlines for rules under the Clean Air Act that address carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired power plants pending final judicial review. This extension applies to any final rule that succeeds either:
the proposed rule entitled "Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units"; or
The extension period begins 60 days after the notice of promulgation of a final rule appears in the Federal Register and ends when the rule is no longer subject to judicial appeal or review.
The bill urges the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in promulgating, implementing, or enforcing the rules, to address how the megawatt hours discharged from a pumped hydroelectric storage system will be incorporated into implementation plans adopted pursuant to the rules.
(Sec. 3) A state is not required to submit or follow an implementation plan that addresses carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants if it determines that the plan would have a significant adverse effect on: (1) the state's residential, commercial, or industrial ratepayers; or (2) the reliability of the state's electricity system.
(Sec. 4) The EPA must treat hydropower as renewable energy when implementing or enforcing the rules.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 2042 as passed House amended on Jun 24, 2015. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Jun 24, 2015Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJun 24, 2015
House Jun 24, 2015 · the primary vote
Ratepayer Protection Act of 2015
Passed
247 Yea 180 Nay 6 not voting
Party-line vote 12 of 427 voting members broke with their own party: 8 Democrats, 4 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 2042 and vote against it. 3 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 2042 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
292 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.