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H.R. 4626House bill · 119th CongressIn the SenateEnergy

Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act

Sponsored byRick W. AllenR-GA-12Introduced Jul 23, 2025Full text on congress.gov ↗

Latest action (Feb 25, 2026) — Received in the Senate and Read twice and on Energy and Natural Resources.

What it does

Congressional Research Service, Jan 30, 2026

Don’t Mess With My Home Appliances Act

This bill modifies the process by which the Department of Energy (DOE) issues or revises energy conservation standards for consumer products such as household appliances, including by requiring DOE to consider additional factors related to the cost and availability of such products.

First, the bill allows DOE to amend an energy conservation standard for a consumer product when needed rather than by a deadline.

The bill also allows DOE to grant a petition to revoke or amend energy conservation standards if 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.

Additionally, the bill modifies the criteria used to prescribe new or amended energy conservation standards, including by establishing new criteria for determining whether a standard is economically justified.

The bill establishes disclosure requirements for DOE meetings with entities that have (1) ties to China or the Chinese Communist Party; (2) produced studies regarding, or advocated for, regulations or policy to limit, restrict, or ban the use of any type of energy; and (3) applied for or received federal funds.

The bill also prohibits DOE from prescribing new or revised energy conservation standards for distribution transformers.

Finally, the bill allows DOE to prescribe certain new or amended energy and water conservation standards for clothes washers and dishwashers.

Face Value

as passed the House
100Narrow

How much of this bill its name accounts for.

  • Every bill starts at100
  • Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.

Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out

What Congress did

2 recorded

  • decisive vote

    House · Feb 24, 2026

    Whether the bill passes the House. This is the vote most people mean.

    217 – 190

    Passed

    Every vote →

  • On

    House · Feb 24, 2026

    The minority party's last attempt to change the bill by sending it back to committee. It usually fails and is usually about forcing an awkward vote.

    197 – 208

    Failed

    Every vote →

Who lobbied on this

5 organizations

These organizations told Congress, in their own quarterly disclosures, that they were lobbying on this bill.

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