[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6089 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6089

     To prohibit States or local governments from prohibiting the 
 connection, reconnection, modification, installation, or expansion of 
     an energy service based on the type or source of energy to be 
                   delivered, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 26, 2023

 Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Mr. Fallon, Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas, 
Mr. Lawler, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Moylan, Mr. Newhouse, 
   Ms. Tenney, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Zinke, and Mr. Higgins of Louisiana) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
     To prohibit States or local governments from prohibiting the 
 connection, reconnection, modification, installation, or expansion of 
     an energy service based on the type or source of energy to be 
                   delivered, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Energy Choice Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATIONS ON REGULATION OF ENERGY CHOICE.

    (a) In General.--No State or local government, or instrumentality 
or regulatory agency thereof, may adopt a law, ordinance, building 
code, or efficiency standard that prohibits, or has the effect of 
prohibiting, the connection, reconnection, modification, installation, 
or expansion of an energy service based on the type or source of energy 
to be delivered to an end-user of such energy service.
    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``energy'' includes--
            (1) natural gas;
            (2) renewable gas;
            (3) hydrogen;
            (4) liquified petroleum gas;
            (5) renewable liquified petroleum gas;
            (6) other liquid petroleum products;
            (7) biomass-based diesel fuels;
            (8) other liquid petroleum products and renewable fuels; 
        and
            (9) electricity.
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