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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 75
To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Sec-
retary of Agriculture to withdraw a final determination relating to energy
efficiency standards for housing, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY3, 2025
Mr. B
IGGSof Arizona (for himself, Mr. OGLES, and Mr. HIGGINSof Lou-
isiana) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans’ Af-
fairs, 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 Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Helping Owners with 4
Unaffordable Shoddy Edicts Act of 2025’’ or the 5
‘‘HOUSE Act of 2025’’. 6
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SEC. 2. ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR HOUSING. 1
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary of Housing and 2
Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture— 3
(1) shall withdraw the final determination an-4
nounced in the notice of final determination entitled 5
‘‘Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New 6
Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Hous-7
ing’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 33112); 8
(2) may not take any action or use any Federal 9
funds to implement or enforce the final determina-10
tion described in paragraph (1) or any substantially 11
similar final determination; and 12
(3) shall revert energy efficiency standards for 13
covered programs under such final determination to 14
the energy efficiency standards required before such 15
final determination. 16
(b) A
CTION BYADDITIONALAGENCIES.— 17
(1) D
EPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS .— 18
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not take any 19
action or use any Federal funds to implement or en-20
force a final determination that is substantially simi-21
lar to the final determination described in subsection 22
(a)(1). 23
(2) F
EDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY .— 24
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Di-25
rector of the Federal Housing Finance Agency may 26
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not finalize, implement, or enforce a determination 1
or rule relating to energy efficiency standards for 2
single and multifamily housing. 3
(c) C
ONSIDERATION OF STATESTANDARDS.—Sec-4
tion 109(d) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 5
Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12709(d)) is amended— 6
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 7
end; 8
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at 9
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 10
(3) by adding at the end the following: 11
‘‘(3) not less than 26 States have adopted an 12
energy efficiency code or standard that meets or ex-13
ceeds the requirements of the revised code or stand-14
ard.’’. 15
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