# H.R. 3628 (119th): State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act

State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act This bill requires certain state authorities that regulate electric utilities to consider the establishment of measures regarding the reliable availability of electricity over specified time periods. These requirements would apply to electric utilities that use integrated resource plans—plans that project future electricity use to ensure resource adequacy, as opposed to utilities that rely on capacity markets, which use price trends for resource planning. Specifically, the state authorities must consider requiring the integrated resource plans of electric utilities to include measures to ensure the reliable availability of electric energy over a 10-year period to maintain the operation of reliable generation facilities or the procurement of electric energy from reliable generation facilities. The bill defines reliable generation facilities as facilities that enable the generation of electric energy on a continuous basis over a period of not fewer than 30 days; have adequate fuel or a continuously available energy source on-site to enable the continuous generation of electric energy for at least 30 days, or have contractual obligations that achieve the same; have operational characteristics to enable the generation of electric energy during emergency and severe weather conditions; and provide services such as frequency support and voltage support.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: electricity_reliability. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: energy_regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: resource_adequacy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: unclear. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 323: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill pursues an ordinary prudential good, the reliable availability of electricity, through regulatory planning rules. It involves no directly named moral evil and does not restrain or advance a named harm. Reasonable people can dispute the cost, fuel-mix, and federalism tradeoffs, so the measure falls under mixed/prudential rather than good or evil.
Theological note: The bill concerns the prudent provision of an essential public good, reliable electricity for households and communities. Scripture's call to stewardship and foresight, and the general equity owed to ordinary people who depend on dependable power, make the reliability goal relevant. The bill's mechanisms, which are state consideration of planning measures and technical generation criteria, raise prudential questions about cost, fuel mix, and state authority that Scripture does not settle directly. This is issue relevance only, not a final candidate judgment.

## Recorded votes

Roll 323: On Passage. Yea 218 · Nay 207 · Other 8.

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