Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act

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Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to revise energy conservation standards (i.e., no-load mode standards for devices operating in standby) for external power supplies (EPSs) designed to be connected to a security or life safety alarm or surveillance system component, such as smoke alarms that have to remain powered at all times.

Current law exempts EPSs of security or life safety systems from those standards until July 1, 2017. This bill extends that exemption until July 1, 2023. The Department of Energy (DOE) must decide by July 1, 2021, whether standards for those EPSs should be amended further. In the rule, DOE may treat such EPSs as a separate class with different standards or may extend the exemption.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6375 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6375

 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

                           November 17, 2016

 Mr. Pompeo (for himself and Mr. Welch) 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 
              STANDARD TO CERTAIN SECURITY OR LIFE SAFETY ALARM OR 
              SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS.

    (a) Section 325(u)(3)(D)(ii) of the Energy Policy and Conservation 
Act (42 U.S.C. 6295(u)(3)(D)(ii)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``2015'' and inserting ``2021''; and
            (2) by striking ``2017'' and inserting ``2023''.
    (b) 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 ``July 1, 2017,'' and 
        inserting ``the effective date of the amendment under 
        subparagraph (D)(ii)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iv) Treatment in rule.--In the rule 
                        under subparagraph (D)(ii) and subsequent 
                        amendments the Secretary may treat some or all 
                        external power supplies designed to be 
                        connected to a security or life safety alarm or 
                        surveillance system as a separate product class 
                        or may extend the nonapplication under clause 
                        (ii).''.
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