S 2633 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Electricity Gouging Refund Act of 2003

Introduced Jul 8, 2004 Originated Senate Sponsor Barbara Boxer D-CA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jul 9, 2004 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 625.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedJul 8, 2004
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Electricity Gouging Refund Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Power Act to instruct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to order a refund (including interest) for that portion of charges on the transmission or sale of electric energy between June 1, 2000, and June 19, 2001, which the Commission finds unjust and unreasonable.

States that the total amount of such refunds shall be not less than $8.9 billion.

Directs the Commission to order the renegotiation of the long-term electricity contracts entered into between the energy companies and the State of California between January 1 and May 31, 2001.

Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jul 9, 2004Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 625.
  2. Jul 8, 2004Introduced in Senate
  3. Jul 8, 2004Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.

Support LegiList

This page is free, carries no paywall, and is built and maintained by one person. If the record here is useful to you, a few dollars keeps it going.

$1 $5 $10

Processed by Stripe in a separate window. LegiList never sees card details.

Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.