119-hr75

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 75 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 75

 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.

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 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

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 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.''.
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