Bill changes the shower spray rule to match a 2024 standard.
H.R. 4593 — Saving Homeowners from Overregulation With Exceptional Rinsing Act · Filed by Russell Fry (R-SC) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 22, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill rewrites the government rule for shower sprays in energy law. It says shower sprays must match a standard from 2024 called ASME A112.18.1–2024. The Department of Energy must update its rules within 180 days. The change may let some shower sprays use more water than before.
Who it affects
People may pay more for water and heat if shower sprays use more water. Shower spray makers and plumbing companies have fewer rules to follow. The government's power to set water-use limits gets smaller.
One thing to notice
The bill ties government law to a 2024 standard made by industry groups. If that standard changes later, government law could change without Congress voting.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 2 Republicans.
- Jul 22, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 22, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy”
- Nov 19, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Dec 3, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 20”
- Jan 13, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 226 - 197 (Roll no. 23). (text: CR 1/7/2026 H127)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
6 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 7 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $404,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 11 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 82% of bills with any report.
Russell Fry, who sponsored the bill, received $816,999 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Sierra Club — $180,000 in 2 reports
- Santa Clara Valley Water District — $130,000 in 1 report
- American Council for an Energy-efficient Economy — $50,000 in 1 report
- American Chemistry Council — $20,000 in 1 report
- Plumbing Manufacturers International — $14,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- shower spray — The part of a shower that sprays water on a person.
- energy law — Government rules that set limits on how much water and power things can use.
- ASME A112.18.1–2024 — A standard for plumbing parts written by engineers and makers in 2024.
- Department of Energy — The government office that makes and enforces rules about energy and water use.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (849 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-21.
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