Summary

Prohibits multi‑state electric transmission providers from assigning the costs of an interstate transmission facility to customers in other states when those costs were driven, in whole or in part, by a policy adopted by the customer’s state or its local governments — unless the customer’s state or an authorized state official expressly agrees. It creates legal presumptions that benefits and cost responsibility for such projects belong to the state whose policy prompted the project and requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to write implementing rules within six months. The change narrows the ability of regional transmission planning and cost allocation to spread costs across states for projects tied to one state’s laws or local policies. Utilities, regional transmission organizations, state and local governments, and retail electricity consumers would be the main parties affected; FERC must issue regulations to implement the rule.

• Prevents multi‑state transmission providers from charging out‑of‑state consumers for transmission costs driven by another state’s policy unless that state consents.
• Creates rebuttable legal presumptions that assign benefits and cost responsibility to the state whose policy motivated the project.
• Defines covered policies to include state and local laws, ordinances, regulations, and executive actions.
• Defines covered transmission facilities as interstate lines planned or built in whole or part to implement a covered policy.
• Requires FERC to issue implementing rules and regulations within six months of enactment.
• Could change how regional transmission planning allocates costs and could require new state consent procedures.
• Does not provide federal funding or change tax law; it is a regulatory allocation rule.
• May increase litigation or disputes over who 'caused' the need for a transmission project and whether a project implements a covered policy.