Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
This bill amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to redefine the federal term “showerhead” by adopting the definition in ASME A112.18.1–2024 and explicitly excluding safety/emergency shower heads. It requires the Department of Energy to update its regulations within 180 days to conform to the new definition.
Progressives highlight water-conservation risks and loopholes
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused statutory amendment that clearly identifies the provision to be changed, adopts an external technical standard for definition, and sets a specific deadline for regulatory conformity.
This bill amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to redefine the federal term “showerhead” by adopting the definition in ASME A112.18.1–2024 and explicitly excluding safety/emergency shower heads.
It requires the Department of Energy to update its regulations within 180 days to conform to the new definition.
Narrow, technical regulatory alignment with limited fiscal impact favors enactment; modest procedural risk in Senate is main barrier.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused statutory amendment that clearly identifies the provision to be changed, adopts an external technical standard for definition, and sets a specific deadline for regulatory conformity. It is light on ancillary detail such as fiscal impacts, boundary definitions for excluded items, and post‑rulemaking accountability.
Progressives highlight water-conservation risks and loopholes
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Progressives highlight water-conservation risks and loopholes
Likely sees the bill as a narrow regulatory rollback that could weaken water-conservation coverage by creating exemptions.
Views the change as technical but worries it may create loopholes that reduce national water- and energy-savings goals.
Views the bill as a technical, narrow statutory clarification aligning federal terminology with an ASME standard and exempting safety showers.
Willing to support if DOE’s regulatory update preserves conservation outcomes and clarity.
Likely supports the bill as a useful deregulatory fix that prevents misapplication of federal standards to safety equipment and harmonizes law with industry consensus.
Sees it as reducing federal overreach.
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Narrow, technical regulatory alignment with limited fiscal impact favors enactment; modest procedural risk in Senate is main barrier.
The House passed this bill. It now goes to the other chamber, and eventually to the President for signature.
The final vote on whether the bill becomes law (pending the other chamber and the President).
The attempt to send the bill back to committee failed. The bill continues moving forward.
A motion to recommit sends a bill back to committee, often as a last-ditch attempt to stop it.
Progressives highlight water-conservation risks and loopholes
Narrow, technical regulatory alignment with limited fiscal impact favors enactment; modest procedural risk in Senate is main barrier.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly focused statutory amendment that clearly identifies the provision to be changed, adopts an external technical standard for definition, and sets a specif…
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