HR 4626
Passed a chamber
Bars the Energy Secretary from setting new or amended home appliance efficiency standards unless they are technologically feasible and economically justified, and tightens the cost tests the Secretary must apply.
Official title: Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
23-JUL-2025
Referred
23-JUL-2025
Approved by committee
03-DEC-2025
Reported
30-JAN-2026
On the calendar
30-JAN-2026
Passed
24-FEB-2026
Senate
Received
25-FEB-2026
- Requires the Secretary to find that a new or amended standard is technologically feasible, economically justified, and not likely to add net costs to consumers
- Bars new or amended efficiency standards for distribution transformers, including low-voltage dry-type transformers
- Allows the Secretary to revoke existing standards through a petition process and requires an evaluation of final rules within 2 years
- Requires the Attorney General to assess whether a proposed standard would lessen market competition
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Reported to House" (30-JAN-2026); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 24-FEB-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
- Energy Subcommittee
- Energy and Natural Resources Committee (Senate)
Energy
No cosponsors.