[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3062 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3062

  To require the Federal Trade Commission to consider including smart 
          grid capability on Energy Guide labels for products.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 15, 2016

  Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Federal Trade Commission to consider including smart 
          grid capability on Energy Guide labels for products.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. INCLUSION OF SMART GRID CAPABILITY ON ENERGY GUIDE LABELS.

    Section 324(a)(2) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 
U.S.C. 6294(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(J) Special notes on smart grid capabilities.--
                            ``(i) Initiation of rulemaking.--Not later 
                        than 1 year after the date of the enactment of 
                        this subparagraph, the Commission shall 
                        initiate a rulemaking to consider making a 
                        special note in a prominent manner on any 
                        Energy Guide label for any product that 
                        includes smart grid capability that--
                                    ``(I) smart grid capability is a 
                                feature of that product; and
                                    ``(II) the use and value of that 
                                feature depend on the smart grid 
                                capability of the utility system in 
                                which the product is installed and the 
                                active utilization of that feature by 
                                the customer.
                            ``(ii) Completion of rulemaking.--Not later 
                        than 3 years after the date of the enactment of 
                        this subparagraph, the Commission shall 
                        complete the rulemaking initiated under clause 
                        (i).''.
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