SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Hands Off Our Home 
Appliances Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PRESCRIBING NEW OR AMENDED ENERGY CON-
SERVATION STANDARDS. 
(a) AMENDMENT OF STANDARDS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 325(m)(1) of the 
Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 
6295(m)(1)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may, for any 
product, publish a notice of proposed rulemaking in-
cluding new proposed standards for such product 
based on the criteria established under subsection 
(o) and the procedures established under subsection 
(p).’’. 
(2) 
AMENDMENT
OF
STANDARD.—Section 
325(m)(3) of the Energy Policy and Conservation 
Act (42 U.S.C. 6295(m)(3)) is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(3) AMENDMENT
OF
STANDARD.—Not later 
than 2 years after a notice is issued under para-
graph (1), the Secretary shall publish a final rule 
amending the standard for the product.’’. 
(b) PETITION FOR AMENDED STANDARD.—Section 
325(n) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 
U.S.C. 6295(n)) is amended—
(1) in the subsection heading, by striking ‘‘AN 
AMENDED STANDARD’’ and inserting ‘‘AMENDMENT 
OR REVOCATION OF STANDARD’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘or revoked’’ 
after ‘‘should be amended’’; 
(3) by amending paragraph (2) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(2) The Secretary shall grant a petition to deter-
mine if energy conservation standards for a covered prod-
uct should be amended or revoked if the Secretary finds 
that such petition contains evidence, assuming no other 
evidence were considered, that such standards— 
‘‘(A) result in additional costs to consumers; 
‘‘(B) do not result in significant conservation of 
energy or water; 
‘‘(C) are not technologically feasible; and 
‘‘(D) result in such covered product not being 
commercially available in the United States to all 
consumers.’’; and 
(4) in paragraph (4)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘NEW
OR
AMENDED 
STANDARDS.’’ and inserting ‘‘NEW, AMENDED, 
OR REVOKED STANDARDS.’’;
(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) 
and (B) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively (and 
by conforming the margins accordingly); 
(C) by striking ‘‘Not later than 3 years’’ 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(A) Not later than 3 years’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) Not later than 180 days after the 
date of granting a petition to revoke standards, 
the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Reg-
ister— 
‘‘(i) a final rule revoking the stand-
ards; or 
‘‘(ii) a determination that it is not 
necessary to revoke the standards. 
‘‘(C) The grant of a petition by the Sec-
retary under this subsection creates no pre-
sumption with respect to the Secretary’s deter-
mination of any of the criteria in a rulemaking 
under this section. 
‘‘(D) Standards that have been revoked 
pursuant to subparagraph (B) shall be consid-
ered to be in effect for purposes of section 
327.’’.
(c) CRITERIA.—Paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 
325(o) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 
U.S.C. 6295(o)) are amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) DESIGN.—Any new or amended en-
ergy conservation standard prescribed by the 
Secretary under this section for any type (or 
class) of covered product shall be designed to 
achieve the maximum improvement in energy 
efficiency, or, in the case of showerheads, fau-
cets, water closets, or urinals, water efficiency, 
which the Secretary determines is techno-
logically feasible and economically justified. 
‘‘(B) TEST PROCEDURES.—The Secretary 
may not prescribe a new or amended energy 
conservation standard under this section for a 
type (or class) of covered product if a test pro-
cedure has not been prescribed pursuant to sec-
tion 323 with respect to that type (or class) of 
product. 
‘‘(C) SIGNIFICANT
CONSERVATION.—The 
Secretary may not prescribe a new or amended 
energy conservation standard under this section 
for a type (or class) of covered product if the 
Secretary determines that the establishment