{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-6192","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 6192","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to prohibit the Secretary of Energy from prescribing any new or amended energy conservation standard for a product that is not technologically feasible and economically justified, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to prohibit the Secretary of Energy from prescribing any new or amended energy conservation standard for a product that is not technologically feasible and economically justified, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2023-11-02","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-05-07","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h184","question":"On Passage","title":"Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act","result":"Passed","yea":212,"nay":195,"present":0,"not_voting":23,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll184.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.","date":"2024-05-08"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[{"number":"H.Amdt. 904","sponsor":"Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-16]","purpose":"An amendment numbered 3 printed in House Report 118-487 to prevent the final rule titled \"Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution Transformers\" from taking effect.","result":"Agreed to","date":"2024-05-07","yea":208,"nay":199,"present":0,"not_voting":28,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll182.xml"}],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2024-05-07","question":"On Agreeing to the Amendment","title":"","result":"Agreed to","yea":208,"nay":199,"present":0,"not_voting":28,"kind":"amendment","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll182.xml"},{"chamber":"house","date":"2024-05-07","question":"On Motion to Recommit","title":"Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act","result":"Failed","yea":202,"nay":206,"present":0,"not_voting":22,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll183.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-03-26","stage":"Reported to House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill modifies the process by which the Department of Energy (DOE) amends, revokes, or implements energy conservation standards for certain consumer products (other than automobiles), such as household appliances."},{"k":"p","t":"First, the bill eliminates the requirement under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act for DOE, within six years of issuing a final rule establishing or amending such standard, to issue a new proposed rule or publish a notice that the standard does not need to be amended. Instead, the bill allows DOE to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking for prescribing a new or amended energy conservation standard for a consumer product at any time."},{"k":"p","t":"Next, the bill specifies that DOE may grant a petition to revoke or amend energy conservation standards if it finds that the standards (1) result in additional costs to consumers, (2) do not result in significant conservation of energy or water, (3) are not technologically feasible, and (4) result in a product (e.g., gas stoves) not being commercially available in the United States to all consumers."},{"k":"p","t":"Finally, the bill modifies the criteria used to prescribe new or amended energy conservation standards. For example, new energy conservation standards must be technologically feasible and economically justified."}],"words":205},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to change how the Secretary of Energy proposes, prescribes, petitions to revoke, and reviews energy conservation standards for covered products, and blocks one distribution transformer rule from taking effect.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text/eh#HC712492FF1DA482E98BB33225926814E"},{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text/eh#H11464BFF752C4545A0F8D934ACBFA5DF"}]},"core_areas":["Rulemaking procedure for energy conservation standards","Petitions to amend or revoke energy conservation standards","Criteria for prescribing energy conservation standards","Review of final energy conservation standard rules","Distribution transformer energy conservation rule"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Replaces the existing rulemaking provision with one letting the Secretary publish a notice of proposed rulemaking with new proposed standards for any product, and requires a final rule amending the standard within 2 years after that notice.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text/eh#HC712492FF1DA482E98BB33225926814E"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary to grant a petition to amend or revoke a standard if it contains evidence that the standard adds costs to consumers, does not significantly conserve energy or water, is not technologically feasible, and leaves the product not commercially available to all consumers in the United States.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text/eh#HC712492FF1DA482E98BB33225926814E"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary, within 180 days after granting a petition to revoke standards, to publish either a final rule revoking them or a determination that revocation is not necessary.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text/eh#HC712492FF1DA482E98BB33225926814E"}},{"text":"Bars the Secretary from prescribing a new or amended standard unless it is technologically feasible and economically justified, and requires public disclosure of certain meetings held in the preceding 5 years with entities described in the text.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text/eh#HC712492FF1DA482E98BB33225926814E"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary to find, before deeming a standard economically justified, that it is not likely to add net costs to the consumer, and that it will reduce at least 0.3 quads of site energy over 30 years or at least 10 percent of energy or water use.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text/eh#HC712492FF1DA482E98BB33225926814E"}},{"text":"States that the final rule titled \"Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution Transformers\" (signed April 3, 2024; Docket No. EERE–2019–BT–STD–0018) shall not take effect.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text/eh#H11464BFF752C4545A0F8D934ACBFA5DF"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"rule_delay","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text/eh#H11464BFF752C4545A0F8D934ACBFA5DF"},"heading":"Distribution transformers","effect":"Provides that the final distribution transformer energy conservation standards rule signed on April 3, 2024 shall not take effect.","amount":null,"quote":"The final rule titled “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution Transformers” (signed on April 3, 2024; Docket No. EERE–2019–BT–STD–0018) shall not take effect."}]},{"category":"unnamed_target","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text/eh#HC712492FF1DA482E98BB33225926814E"},"heading":"Prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards","effect":"Among its changes to energy conservation standard rulemaking, bars the Secretary from prescribing a new or amended standard unless the Secretary publicly discloses meetings in the prior 5 years with entities that have ties to the People's Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party, have produced studies or advocated on limiting energy use, and have applied for or received Federal funds.","amount":null,"quote":"publicly discloses each meeting held by the Secretary, during the 5-year period preceding such date, with any entity that— (i) has ties to the People’s Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party;"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-05-07","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6192/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-6192.png","v":"9e7e56ce4e6d","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 6192, 118th Congress: Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act. House: 212 Yea, 195 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 7 May 2024."}}