Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act
Current understanding
Introduced legislation that would restructure DOE’s energy conservation standard-setting for household appliances by requiring the Secretary to prioritize consumer cost and product availability, creating a petition process to revoke existing standards, mandating disclosure of DOE meetings with China-linked entities or energy-restriction advocates, and prohibiting new energy conservation standards for distribution transformers. Status: introduced; no CBO score or committee action recorded in this finding.