Energy Choice Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3699 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3699

 To prohibit States or local governments from prohibiting or limiting 
       the connection, reconnection, modification, installation, 
 transportation, distribution, or expansion of an energy service based 
    on the type or source of energy to be delivered, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2025

 Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Mr. Baumgartner, Mr. Bergman, Mr. Bost, 
  Mr. Bresnahan, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Carey, Mr. Crank, Mr. Edwards, Mr. 
  Ellzey, Mr. Finstad, Mr. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Gooden, Mr. 
 Harrigan, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Hurd of Colorado, Mr. Lawler, 
Mr. Mackenzie, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. McDowell, Mr. Messmer, Mr. Meuser, 
Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Moore of North Carolina, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Pfluger, 
Mr. Rose, Mr. Rulli, Mr. Shreve, Ms. Stefanik, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Thompson 
  of Pennsylvania, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Wied, Mr. Williams of Texas, Mr. 
    Zinke, Mr. LaHood, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. McClintock, and Mr. Mann) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit States or local governments from prohibiting or limiting 
       the connection, reconnection, modification, installation, 
 transportation, distribution, or expansion of an energy service based 
    on the type or source of energy to be delivered, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Energy Choice Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATIONS ON REGULATION OF ENERGY CHOICE.

    (a) In General.--A State or local government, or instrumentality or 
regulatory agency thereof, may not adopt, implement, or enforce a law, 
regulation, ordinance, building code, standard, or policy that 
prohibits or limits, or has the effect of directly or indirectly 
prohibiting or limiting the connection, reconnection, modification, 
installation, transportation, distribution, expansion, or access to an 
energy service based on the type or source of energy that is sold in 
interstate commerce to be delivered to an end-user of such energy 
service.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section, the term ``energy'' includes--
            (1) natural gas;
            (2) renewable natural gas;
            (3) hydrogen;
            (4) liquified petroleum gas;
            (5) renewable liquified petroleum gas;
            (6) other liquid petroleum products;
            (7) biomass-based diesel fuels and renewable fuels; and
            (8) electricity.
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