[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1615 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 102
118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1615


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 14, 2023

                     Received; read the first time

                             June 15, 2023

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 AN ACT


 
        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, 
would otherwise result in the unavailability in the United States of a 
type (or class) of product based on the type of fuel the product 
consumes, or would otherwise substantially increase the average price 
of gas stoves in the United States.

            Passed the House of Representatives June 13, 2023.

            Attest:

                                             CHERYL L. JOHNSON,

                                                                 Clerk.
                                                       Calendar No. 102

118th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 1615

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

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

_______________________________________________________________________

                             June 15, 2023

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar