Official Summaries

This joint resolution nullifies the Energy Conservation Program for Appliance Standards: Certification Requirements, Labeling Requirements, and Enforcement Provisions for Certain Consumer Products and Commercial Equipment rule published by the Department of Energy (DOE) on October 9, 2024. Under the rule, DOE modified its regulations on the energy efficiency of certain types of consumer products (e.g., washing machines and dishwashers) and industrial equipment (e.g., computer room air conditioners). Specifically, it modified certification requirements, labeling requirements, and enforcement provisions for these products and equipment to (1) align reporting requirements with currently applicable energy conservation standards and test procedures, and (2) provide DOE with the information necessary to determine the appropriate classification of products for the application of standards. 

This joint resolution eliminates new, more stringent certification, labeling, and enforcement requirements related to energy conservation standards for specific types of appliances.

Specifically, the joint resolution nullifies a rule titled the Energy Conservation Program for Appliance Standards: Certification Requirements, Labeling Requirements, and Enforcement Provisions for Certain Consumer Products and Commercial Equipment and published by the Department of Energy (DOE) on October 9, 2024. Under the rule, DOE modified its regulations on the energy efficiency of certain types of consumer products (e.g., washing machines and dishwashers) and industrial equipment (e.g., computer room air conditioners). DOE modified certification requirements, labeling requirements, and enforcement provisions for these products and equipment to (1) align reporting requirements with currently applicable energy conservation standards and test procedures, and (2) provide DOE with the information necessary to determine the appropriate classification of products for the application of standards. 

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[119th Congress Public Law 8]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 119-8
119th Congress

                            Joint Resolution


 
  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 for Appliance Standards: 
   Certification Requirements, Labeling Requirements, and Enforcement 
        Provisions for Certain Consumer Products and Commercial 
          Equipment''. <<NOTE: May 9, 2025 -  [H.J. Res. 42]>> 

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to ``Energy 
Conservation Program for Appliance Standards: Certification 
Requirements, Labeling Requirements, and Enforcement Provisions for 
Certain Consumer Products and Commercial Equipment'' (89 Fed. Reg. 81994 
(October 9, 2024)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.

    Approved May 9, 2025.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.J. Res. 42:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 171 (2025):
            Mar. 5, considered and passed House.
            Apr. 29, 30, considered and passed Senate.
DAILY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS (2025):
            May 9, Presidential remarks.

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