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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 8624 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 5, 2024 

Mr. BIGGS (for himself, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. OGLES, Mr. 

MOOLENAAR, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. ROSENDALE, and Mr. 

DONALDS) 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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Helping Owners with 

5 Unaffordable Shoddy Edicts Act of 2024’’ or the 

6 ‘‘HOUSE Act of 2024’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR HOUSING. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Housing and 

3 Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture— 

4 (1) shall withdraw the final determination an5 nounced in the notice of final determination entitled 

6 ‘‘Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New 

7 Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Hous8 ing’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 33112); 

9 (2) may not take any action or use any Federal 

10 funds to implement or enforce the final determina11 tion described in paragraph (1) or any substantially 

12 similar final determination; and 

13 (3) shall revert energy efficiency standards for 

14 covered programs under such final determination to 

15 the energy efficiency standards required before such 

16 final determination. 

17 (b) ACTION BY ADDITIONAL AGENCIES.— 

18 (1) DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.— 

19 The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not take any 

20 action or use any Federal funds to implement or en21 force a final determination that is substantially simi22 lar to the final determination described in subsection 

23 (a)(1). 

24 (2) FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY.— 

25 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Di26 rector of the Federal Housing Finance Agency may 


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1 not finalize, implement, or enforce a determination 

2 or rule relating to energy efficiency standards for 

3 single and multifamily housing. 

4 (c) CONSIDERATION OF STATE STANDARDS.—Sec5 tion 109(d) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 

6 Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12709(d)) is amended— 

7 (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 

8 end; 

9 (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at 

10 the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

11 (3) by adding at the end the following: 

12 ‘‘(3) not less than 26 States have adopted an 

13 energy efficiency code or standard that meets or ex14 ceeds the requirements of the revised code or stand15 ard.’’. 

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