S 8946 — Requires that gas and electric corporations provide in-person customer service representatives and maintain a publicly accessible outage and emergency tracking website
Congress · introduced 2026-01-20
Requires that gas and electric corporations provide in-person customer service representatives and maintain a publicly accessible outage and emergency tracking website.
Latest action: 2026-01-20 — IN_SENATE_COMM
Sponsors
- Peter Oberacker (—, NY-51) — sponsor · 2026-01-20
- Stephen T. Chan (—, NY-17) — cosponsor · 2026-01-20
Action timeline
- · senate — REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Text versions
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Inbound (2)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | Stephen T. Chan | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-20 | Peter Oberacker | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter Oberacker (—, state_upper NY-51) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Stephen T. Chan (—, state_upper NY-17) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2026-01-20 · cosponsored by Stephen T. Chan (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-20 · sponsored by Peter Oberacker (sponsor) · sponsorship