Bill repeals rules that made light bulbs use less power.
S. 1568 — LIT Act of 2025 · Filed by Mike Lee (R-UT) · 6 cosponsors · Introduced May 1, 2025 · Hearing held
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What it does
This bill removes rules that required light bulbs to meet power-use standards. The Department of Energy set these rules in 2022 and 2024. The bill lets makers produce and sell bulbs that use more power. Makers no longer have to follow the power-use standards.
Who it affects
Households will likely pay more for power bills over time. The bill removes rules that helped cut power waste and lower bills. Bulb makers will no longer have to meet power-use rules.
One thing to notice
The bill removes rules that set a clear standard for how much power bulbs must use. Without these rules, people will find it harder to pick bulbs that use less power.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
6 cosponsors: 6 Republicans.
- May 1, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- May 1, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources”
- Sep 16, 2026 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Dec 2025 to Dec 2025.
Those reports show $515,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 11 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Mike Lee, who sponsored the bill, received $239,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Electrical Manufacturers Association — $515,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- power-use standards — Rules that set the least amount of power a light bulb can use.
- Department of Energy — The government office that makes and enforces rules about how much power products 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.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,637 characters) on Sep 18, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 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 Dec 2025. 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 Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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