Energy Choice Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1945 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1945

 To prohibit States and 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 4, 2025

 Mr. Justice (for himself, Mr. Tuberville, and Mrs. Capito) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                    on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit States and 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. DEFINITION OF ENERGY.

    In this Act, 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.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON REGULATION OF ENERGY CHOICE.

    A State or local government, including any instrumentality or 
regulatory agency of a State or local government, 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, 
or expansion of, or access to, an energy service based on the type or 
source of energy sold in interstate commerce to be delivered to an end-
user of that energy service.
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