# H.R. 4626 (119th): Don’t Mess With My Home Appliances Act

Don’t Mess With My Home Appliances Act This bill modifies the process by which the Department of Energy (DOE) issues or revises energy conservation standards for consumer products such as household appliances, including by requiring DOE to consider additional factors related to the cost and availability of such products. First, the bill allows DOE to amend an energy conservation standard for a consumer product when needed rather than by a deadline. The bill also allows DOE to grant a petition to revoke or amend energy conservation standards if the standards (1) result in additional costs to consumers, (2) do not result in significant conservation of energy or water, (3) are not technologically feasible, and (4) result in a product (e.g., gas stoves) not being commercially available in the United States to all consumers. Additionally, the bill modifies the criteria used to prescribe new or amended energy conservation standards, including by establishing new criteria for determining whether a standard is economically justified. The bill establishes disclosure requirements for DOE meetings with entities that have (1) ties to China or the Chinese Communist Party; (2) produced studies regarding, or advocated for, regulations or policy to limit, restrict, or ban the use of any type of energy; and (3) applied for or received federal funds. The bill also prohibits DOE from prescribing new or revised energy conservation standards for distribution transformers. Finally, the bill allows DOE to prescribe certain new or amended energy and water conservation standards for clothes washers and dishwashers.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: appliance_standards. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: consumer_cost. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: energy_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: foreign_ties_disclosure. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: ownership. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulatory_reform. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: repair_rights. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: right_to_repair. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 75: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 76: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The summary is sufficient for a high-level judgment. It is a regulatory process bill that pursues ordinary goods (consumer cost relief, flexibility, and transparency about foreign ties) alongside contestable tradeoffs in energy and efficiency policy. It does not directly restrain a named evil or directly advance a named moral harm.
Theological note: The bill touches stewardship of resources, the cost of ordinary household goods on families, and the lawful ordering of government regulation. Scripture supports prudent stewardship of creation and fair dealing, and it warns against burdens that fall unjustly on the poor. Whether these standards are wise or excessive is a prudential question, not a clear moral verdict. The China-related disclosure concerns truthful dealing with foreign-linked parties, but the measure does not itself advance or restrain a named moral evil.

## Recorded votes

Roll 75: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 197 · Nay 208 · Other 27.
Roll 76: On Passage. Yea 217 · Nay 190 · Other 25.

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