Committee adds $500,000 notice for H740 greenhouse-gas reporting bill to FY27 budget letter

An unidentified member of the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure committee said Thursday that the panel added language to its FY27 budget letter notifying House Appropriations of a proposed $500,000 appropriation tied to H740, a bill to give the agency of natural resources authority to adopt rules creating a comprehensive greenhouse-gas emission reporting program.

The move is intended as a heads-up to appropriators, said the unidentified committee member, who told colleagues the appropriation amount that Appropriations would consider—if H740 reaches them—is $500,000. The committee member said testimony documents for H740 are already posted on the committee’s website.

The committee did not take a formal roll-call vote on H740 or the appropriation. Instead, the chair called a straw poll on the funding request; the transcript records the supporting count as six and opposition as three (the speaker reported "That's 6" and later summarized opposition as "6 to 3"). The committee member said they would strike a typo in the letter and submit the completed FY27 budget letter to House Appropriations.

The transcript record shows the panel stressed that the inclusion in the budget letter is informational—it does not constitute a final appropriation or a formal committee endorsement of the bill. The committee member said the bill will continue to take testimony and is expected to be brought to a vote before crossover.

Next steps: Appropriations will consider the appropriation request if and when H740 reaches that committee. No formal committee vote or final appropriation was recorded in the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure transcript.