House Bill 4626
119th Congress(2025-2026)
Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act
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Amendments
Passed House on Feb 24, 2026
Bill Intelligence
This bill aims to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to allow the Secretary to propose new energy conservation standards for home appliances and products. It also prohibits the Secretary from prescribing new or revised energy conservation standards for distribution transformers. Additionally, the bill allows the Secretary to prescribe new or amended energy conservation standards for clothes washers and dishwashers, including design requirements and performance standards related to energy and water efficiency. If passed, this bill will impact the energy and water efficiency standards for these specific home appliances.
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Origin Chamber
House
Type
Bill
Bill
The primary form of legislative measure used to propose law. Depending on the chamber of origin, bills begin with a designation of either H.R. or S. Joint resolution is another form of legislative measure used to propose law.
Bill Number
4626
Congress
119
Policy Area
Energy
Energy
Primary focus of measure is all sources and supplies of energy, including alternative energy sources, oil and gas, coal, nuclear power; efficiency and conservation; costs, prices, and revenues; electric power transmission; public utility matters.
Question
On Passage
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Roll Call Vote
A vote that records the individual position of each Member who voted. Such votes occurring on the House floor (by the "yeas and nays" or by "recorded vote") are taken by electronic device. The Senate has no electronic voting system; in such votes, Senators answer "yea" or "nay" as the clerk calls each name aloud. Each vote is compiled by clerks and receives a roll call number (referenced in Congress.gov as a "Record Vote" [Senate] or "Roll no." [House]).
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Summary
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.
February 25, 2026
February 24, 2026
January 30, 2026
July 23, 2025
Amendments (1)
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02/25/2026
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
02/24/2026
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
02/24/2026
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 217 - 190 (Roll no. 76). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H4679-4681)
02/24/2026
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 217 - 190 (Roll no. 76). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H4679-4681)
02/24/2026
On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 197 - 208 (Roll no. 75). (CR H2285)
02/24/2026
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2279-2286)
02/24/2026
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 4626, the Chair put the question on motion to recommit and by voice vote, announced the noes had prevailed. Mr. Suozzi demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
02/24/2026
The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.
02/24/2026
Mr. Suozzi moved to recommit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. (CR H2285)
02/24/2026
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
02/24/2026
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 4626.
02/24/2026
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4626 and H.R. 4758. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 4626 and H.R. 4758 under a closed rule with one motion to recommit for each bill. The resolution provides for one hour of general debate on each bill.
02/24/2026
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 1075. (consideration: CR H2269-2276)
02/24/2026
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 1075 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4626 and H.R. 4758. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 4626 and H.R. 4758 under a closed rule with one motion to recommit for each bill. The resolution provides for one hour of general debate on each bill.
01/30/2026
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 401.
01/30/2026
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-470.
12/03/2025
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 26 - 22.
12/03/2025
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
11/19/2025
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 17 - 14.
11/19/2025
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
07/23/2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
07/23/2025
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
07/23/2025
Introduced in House
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