HLS 24RS-4389 ENGROSSED
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 134
BY REPRESENTATIVE CREWS
UTILITIES: Directs utility companies to help facilitate the reporting requirements of the
HUD Green mortgage insurance premiums program
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2To direct utility providers to help facilitate the reporting requirements of the HUD Green
3 mortgage insurance premiums program.
4 WHEREAS, the United States Department of Housing and Development, or HUD,
5requires annual reporting in order for building owners to utilize the Green mortgage
6insurance premiums, or MIP, program; and
7 WHEREAS, according to HUD, for borrowers utilizing federal housing
8administration-insured financing, the Green MIP program is an incentive intended to
9encourage multifamily property owners to adopt higher standards for construction,
10rehabilitation, repairs, maintenance, and property operations that are more energy efficient
11and sustainable than traditional approaches to such activities; and
12 WHEREAS, this state wants to ensure property developers are able to utilize the
13Green MIP program incentive; and
14 WHEREAS, this state has a dearth of affordable and market rate housing available;
15and
16 WHEREAS, HUD incentivizes developers to build these properties; and
17 WHEREAS, it has historically been burdensome upon property management teams
18to collect the energy consumption data of properties as required by HUD for the Green MIP
19program; and
20 WHEREAS, even with stipulations to provide such data written in leases, tenants are
21often unresponsive to these requirements; and
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1 WHEREAS, these circumstances have been so unmanageable that HUD has extended
2its March thirty-first deadline to May thirty-first; and
3 WHEREAS, HUD, the United States Department of Energy, and the United States
4Environmental Protection Agency on January 18, 2024, issued a letter explaining the
5situation and encouraging utility providers to provide needed data; and
6 WHEREAS, utility providers are in the best position to aggregate the required energy
7data; and
8 WHEREAS, aggregation of energy consumption data by utility providers negates
9privacy concerns; and
10 WHEREAS, a logical solution would be for utility providers to supply this data to
11their clients.
12 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
13direct all utility providers to develop protocols to facilitate the supplying of aggregate energy
14consumption data to multifamily properties within their respective service area.
15 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
16Public Service Commission and the New Orleans City Council to be distributed to the utility
17providers under their oversight.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HCR 134 Engrossed 2024 Regular Session Crews
Directs utility providers to help facilitate the reporting requirements of the HUD Green MIP
program.
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