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To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture to withdraw a final determination relating to energy efficiency standards for housing, and for other purposes.
Summary
The bill directs the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Agriculture to withdraw a final determination that established new energy efficiency standards for housing financed through their programs, and prohibits them from implementing or enforcing this requirement or any substantially similar standard. It also prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs from implementing energy efficiency standards for housing and prevents the Federal Housing Finance Agency from finalizing or enforcing any rules relating to energy efficiency standards for single and multifamily housing. Additionally, the bill amends housing law to require that at least 26 states must adopt an energy efficiency code or standard meeting or exceeding revised standards before federal action on energy efficiency for housing can proceed.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5] (R-AZ)
5 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Andy Biggs’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- SAULSBURY INDUSTRIES $9,900
- 21ST CENTURY HEALTHCARE $7,500
- ULINE $6,600
- TW LEWIS COMPANY $6,600
- LEE BENSON $6,600
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Andy Biggs → · Outside spending →
Actions (3)
- Feb 6, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity. · house
- Jan 3, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. · house
- Jan 3, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Mr. Biggs of Arizona (for himself, Mr. Ogles, and Mr. Higgins of Louisiana) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture to withdraw a final determination relating to energy efficiency standards for housing, 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 “Helping Owners with Unaffordable Shoddy Edicts Act of 2025” or the “HOUSE Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR HOUSING.
(a) In General.—The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture—
(1) shall withdraw the final determination announced in the notice of final determination entitled “Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA- Financed Housing” (89 Fed. Reg. 33112);
(2) may not take any action or use any Federal funds to implement or enforce the final determination described in paragraph (1) or any substantially similar final determination; and
(3) shall revert energy efficiency standards for covered programs under such final determination to the energy efficiency standards required before such final determination.
(b) Action by Additional Agencies.—
(1) Department of veterans affairs.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not take any action or use any Federal funds to implement or enforce a final determination that is substantially similar to the final determination described in subsection (a)(1).
(2) Federal housing finance agency.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency may not finalize, implement, or enforce a determination or rule relating to energy efficiency standards for single and multifamily housing.
(c) Consideration of State Standards.—Section 109(d) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12709(d)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking “and” at the end;
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
“(3) not less than 26 States have adopted an energy efficiency code or standard that meets or exceeds the requirements of the revised code or standard.”. <all>
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