[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1615 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1615

        To prohibit the use of Federal funds to ban gas stoves.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2023

Mr. Armstrong introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
        To prohibit the use of Federal funds to ban gas stoves.

    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 ``Gas Stove Protection and Freedom 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Consumer 
        Product Safety Commission.
            (2) Gas stove.--The term ``gas stove'' means any gas range, 
        gas stove, or household cooking gas appliance that meets the 
        standard set forth in American National Standards Institute 
        (ANSI) Z21.1/ CSA Z21.1 or any successor standard.
            (3) Substantially increase the average price of gas 
        stoves.--The term ``substantially increase the average price of 
        gas stoves'' means that the average price of a gas stove, 
        annualized over its expected life, would likely be 
        substantially higher than the average spending by United States 
        homeowners on cooking stoves and ovens based on the most recent 
        data for consumer expenditures reported by the Bureau of Labor 
        Statistics.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON CPSC BANNING GAS STOVES.

    No Federal funds may be used by the Commission to regulate a gas 
stove as a banned hazardous product under section 8 of the Consumer 
Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2057) or to impose or enforce any 
consumer product safety standard or rule on gas stoves under section 7 
or 9 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 2056 or 2058) that would otherwise result 
in a prohibition on the use or sale of gas stoves in the United States 
or would otherwise substantially increase the average price of gas 
stoves in the United States.
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