Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act

Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act

This bill amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to revise energy conservation standards for devices operating in standby mode. Current law exempts the external power supplies of security or life safety systems from those standards until July 1, 2017. This bill makes permanent the exemption.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6214 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6214

 To provide for consideration of the extension under the Energy Policy 
     and Conservation Act of nonapplication of No-Load Mode energy 
   efficiency standards to certain security or life safety alarms or 
                         surveillance systems.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2016

  Mr. Pompeo introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for consideration of the extension under the Energy Policy 
     and Conservation Act of nonapplication of No-Load Mode energy 
   efficiency standards to certain security or life safety alarms or 
                         surveillance systems.

    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 ``Power And Security Systems (PASS) 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF NONAPPLICATION OF NO-LOAD MODE ENERGY EFFICIENCY 
              STANDARDS TO CERTAIN SECURITY OR LIFE SAFETY ALARMS OR 
              SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS.

    Section 325(u)(3)(E) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 
U.S.C. 6295(u)(3)(E)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (ii), by striking ``manufactured before July 
        1, 2017,''; and
            (2) in clause (iii)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of subclause 
                (I);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of subclause 
                (II) and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(III) determine, no later than 
                                July 1, 2019, if a no-load standard for 
                                these products should be prescribed.''.
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