Save Our Gas Stoves Act

Subjects: Energy, Administrative law and regulatory procedures, Consumer affairs, Department of Energy, Energy efficiency and conservation, Oil and gas

Summary:  <p><b>Save Our Gas Stoves Act</b></p> <p>This bill places limits on energy conservation standards for kitchen ranges or ovens under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.</p> <p>The Department of the Energy (DOE) may not prescribe or amend energy conservation standards for kitchen ranges or ovens if they would result in the unavailability of a product on account of the type of fuel the range or oven uses. </p> <p>In addition, DOE may not finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule titled <i>Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Conventional Cooking Products</i> issued on February 1, 2023, or any substantially similar rule. The proposed rule prescribes energy conservation standards for consumer conventional cooking tops, including electric cooking tops, gas cooking tops, electrical ovens, and gas ovens.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1640 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1640

 To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from finalizing, implementing, or 
   enforcing the proposed rule titled ``Energy Conservation Program: 
    Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Conventional Cooking 
                  Products'', and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2023

Mrs. Lesko (for herself and Mr. Burgess) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from finalizing, implementing, or 
   enforcing the proposed rule titled ``Energy Conservation Program: 
    Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Conventional Cooking 
                  Products'', and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Save Our Gas Stoves Act''.

SEC. 2. STANDARDS FOR KITCHEN RANGES AND OVENS.

    Section 325(h) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 
6295(h)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(3) The Secretary may not determine that imposition of an energy 
conservation standard under this section for kitchen ranges or ovens is 
economically justified for purposes of subsection (o) unless the 
Secretary determines that imposition of such energy conservation 
standard is not likely to result in the unavailability in the United 
States of a type (or class) of product based on what type of fuel the 
product consumes.''.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON RULEMAKING.

    The Secretary of Energy may not finalize, implement, or enforce the 
proposed rule titled ``Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation 
Standards for Consumer Conventional Cooking Products'' (88 Fed. Reg. 
6818 (February 1, 2023)) or any substantially similar rule.
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