[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 240 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 240

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 2, 2023

 Mr. Cruz (for himself and Mr. Manchin) introduced the following bill; 
    which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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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.

    No Federal funds may be used by the Commission to regulate an 
existing or new 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 existing or new 
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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