HJRES20Enacted into Law
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters".
Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
Passed Both
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-01-15
Introduced
29
Cosponsors
HJRES
ⓘType
Sponsor
Gary J. Palmer
Republican · AL · Representative
Votes with party: 97.1% (665 recorded votes)
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- House Committee on Energy and CommerceReferred To · 2025-01-15
Plain-English Summary
This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters and submitted by the Department of Energy (DOE) on December 26, 2024. Under the rule, DOE adopted amended energy conservation standards for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters to achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency that DOE determined was technologically feasible and economically justified.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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Energy
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