[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1121 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 1121


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 21, 2024

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
      To prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting American Energy 
Production Act''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTING AMERICAN ENERGY PRODUCTION.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that States 
should maintain primacy for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for 
oil and natural gas production on State and private lands.
    (b) Prohibition on Declaration of a Moratorium on Hydraulic 
Fracturing.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President 
may not declare a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless 
such moratorium is authorized by an Act of Congress.

            Passed the House of Representatives March 20, 2024.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.