Strengthening Manufactured Appliance Requirements towards Thoughtful Energy Efficiency Standards Act or the SMART Energy Efficiency Standards Act
This bill modifies the date that regional energy efficiency standards established under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) apply to furnaces, central air conditioners, and heat pumps. EPCA applies the standard on the date such products are installed. The bill applies the standard on the date such products are manufactured or imported.
To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act with respect to 
  regional standards for furnaces, central air conditioners, and heat 
                                 pumps.

    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 ``Strengthening Manufactured Appliance 
Requirements towards Thoughtful Energy Efficiency Standards Act'' or 
the ``SMART Energy Efficiency Standards Act''.

SEC. 2. REGIONAL STANDARDS FOR FURNACES, CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONERS, AND 
              HEAT PUMPS.

    Section 325(o)(6)(E)(ii) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act 
(42 U.S.C. 6295(o)(6)(E)(ii)) is amended by striking ``shall apply to 
any such product installed on or after the effective date of the 
standard in States in which the Secretary has designated the standard 
to apply'' and inserting ``shall apply, in States in which the 
Secretary has designated the standard to apply, to any such product 
that is manufactured or imported into the United States on or after the 
effective date of the standard''.
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SMART Energy Efficiency Standards Act
To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act with respect to regional standards for furnaces, central air conditioners, and heat pumps.
SMART Energy Efficiency Standards Act
Strengthening Manufactured Appliance Requirements towards Thoughtful Energy Efficiency Standards Act
Rep. Latta, Robert E.