I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 438 
To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to provide further 
requirements for the Energy Star program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 25, 2011 
Mr. WEINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to provide 
further requirements for the Energy Star program, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy Star Improve-
ments Act of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. ENERGY STAR STANDARDS. 
(a) ENERGY STAR.—Section 324A(c) of the Energy 
Policy and Conservation Act is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (6)(B), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
after the semicolon at the end; 
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(2) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) in establishing and revising an Energy 
Star product category, specification, or criterion, re-
quire inclusion of developmental products planned 
for sale within 2 years in the testing or evaluation 
of products proposed for purposes of such establish-
ment or revision; 
‘‘(9) not later than 2 years after the date of en-
actment of this paragraph, establish and implement 
a ratings system for products identified as Energy 
Star products pursuant to this section to provide 
consumers with the most helpful information on the 
relative energy efficiency of those products, unless 
the Administrator and the Secretary communicate to 
Congress that establishing such a system would di-
minish the value of the Energy Star brand to con-
sumers; 
‘‘(10)(A) review the Energy Star product cri-
teria for the 10 products in each product category 
with the greatest energy consumption at least once 
every 3 years; and 
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‘‘(B) based on the review, update and publish 
the Energy Star product criteria for each such cat-
egory, as necessary; 
‘‘(11) before permitting a product to be identi-
fied as an Energy Star product, require the manu-
facturer of such product to prove the compliance of 
the product with Energy Star product criteria 
through testing at an independent laboratory cer-
tified for such purpose by the Secretary; and 
‘‘(12) periodically verify, at the expense of the 
manufacturer of the product, compliance with En-
ergy Star product criteria by products identified as 
Energy Star products pursuant to this section, in-
cluding through— 
‘‘(A) purchase and testing of products 
from the market; or 
‘‘(B) other appropriate testing and compli-
ance approaches.’’. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the amend-
ments made by this section $10,000,000 for fiscal year 
2011 and for each fiscal year thereafter. 
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