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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana House Bill 922 Prohibits Utility Rate Hikes for Households Due to Data Center Energy Costs
Last action · March 9, 2026: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.Sponsors: Rodney Schamerhorn and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
Electric public utilities are prohibited from increasing rates for household customers or recovering any costs resulting from new electric demand created by data centers. The legislation requires the Public Service Commission to ensure that all expenses related to data center energy demands are allocated solely to the data centers through special contracts, tariffs, or separate rate classes.
Residential electric customers are protected from bearing any financial burden associated with the infrastructure, generation, transmission, or operational costs required to power large-scale data facilities.
Who It Would Have Affected
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household customer
Residential electric customers are legally protected from absorbing any price increases or cost recovery associated with new data center electric demand.
data center
Data centers with electric demands of 50 megawatts or more are required to bear 100% of their incremental infrastructure and energy costs through separate rate classes or long-term contracts of at least fifteen years.
Public Service Commission
The commission is required to promulgate new rules, enforce cost-causation principles, conduct independent prudence reviews, and deny rate adjustments that violate the cost-shifting prohibition.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
4 actions- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.
- Feb 27, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
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Establishment of Cost-Causation Rules for Large Industrial Tech Infrastructure
The bill formally creates a distinct regulatory category for data centers requiring 50 megawatts or more, legally barring electric utilities from blending industrial expansion costs into residential rate bases.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy60Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz50Current news / social attention level
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