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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3275 

To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide 

grants and loans to owners of dated manufactured homes for the replacement of such dated manufactured homes with Energy Star-qualified 

manufactured or modular homes, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 29, 2015 

Mr. ELLISON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide grants and loans to owners of dated 

manufactured homes for the replacement of such dated 

manufactured homes with Energy Star-qualified manufactured or modular homes, 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 ‘‘Energy Efficient Man5 ufactured Home Act of 2015’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE FOR REPLACEMENT OF DATED MANU2 FACTURED HOMES WITH ENERGY-EFFICIENT 

3 MANUFACTURED AND MODULAR HOMES. 

4 (a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Housing and 

5 Urban Development may carry out a program under this 

6 section to provide grants to assist low-income, very low7 income, and extremely low-income owners of dated manu8 factured homes for the replacement of such dated manu9 factured homes with Energy Star-qualified manufactured 

10 or modular homes. 

11 (b) GRANTS.— 

12 (1) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—The Secretary may 

13 provide grants under this section only to— 

14 (A) State housing finance agencies; 

15 (B) units of general local government; and 

16 (C) qualified nonprofit organizations. 

17 (2) COMPETITION; PRIORITY.—The Secretary 

18 shall provide grants under this section through com19 petition that provides priority to applicants for such 

20 grants that, in accordance with criteria established 

21 by the Secretary— 

22 (A) demonstrate that providing a grant to 

23 the applicant would result in substantial energy 

24 gains and returns on investment on replacement 

25 of dated manufactured homes; 


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1 (B) will use grants in areas having the in2 frastructure or planned infrastructure necessary 

3 to replace dated manufactured homes; 

4 (C) will act in partnership with providers 

5 of high quality affordable lending products that 

6 enable sustainable homeownership; or 

7 (D) will supplement assistance provided to 

8 eligible owners of dated manufactured homes 

9 pursuant to a grant under this section with 

10 funds from other sources, and provide such as11 surances as the Secretary considers necessary 

12 to ensure that such supplemental amounts are 

13 available for such purpose. 

14 (3) USE OF FUNDS.—A grantee shall use 

15 amounts from a grant provided under this section 

16 only to provide assistance to owners of dated manu17 factured homes in accordance with subsection (c). 

18 (4) FAILURE BY GRANTEES TO ACT.—If a 

19 grantee fails to use any portion of grant provided 

20 under this section during the 36-month period begin21 ning on the date of receipt of the grant amounts— 

22 (A) the unused amount of the grant shall 

23 revert to the Secretary; and 


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1 (B) the Secretary shall make such amounts 

2 available under the competition required under 

3 paragraph (2). 

4 (c) ASSISTANCE.—Assistance under this subsection 

5 shall be assistance designed to enable the owner of a dated 

6 manufactured home to afford to replace or decommission 

7 such manufactured home, subject to the following condi8 tions: 

9 (1) FORM OF ASSISTANCE.—A grantee may 

10 provide assistance under this subsection to the 

11 owner of a dated manufactured home only in the fol12 lowing forms: 

13 (A) A grant or loan for use toward the 

14 purchase of a new Energy Star-qualified manu15 factured or modular home. The Secretary shall 

16 establish such requirements for loans made with 

17 assistance provided under this subsection, and 

18 servicers of such loans, as necessary to ensure 

19 that such loans are high quality affordable lend20 ing products that enable sustainable homeown21 ership. 

22 (B) A grant for the decommissioning, and 

23 any related costs, of a dated manufactured 

24 home. 


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1 (2) INCOME AND PRIMARY RESIDENCE RE2 QUIREMENTS.—A grant or loan under this sub3 section may be made only to the owner of a dated 

4 manufactured home who— 

5 (A) is a low-, very low-, or extremely low6 income family; and 

7 (B) has used such manufactured home as 

8 a primary residence on a year-round basis for 

9 at least the preceding 24 months. 

10 (3) DESTRUCTION AND REPLACEMENT OF

11 DATED MANUFACTURED HOME.— 

12 (A) IN GENERAL.—A grant or loan under 

13 paragraph (1)(A) may be made only if the ap14 plicable dated manufactured home will be— 

15 (i) destroyed (including appropriate 

16 recycling); and 

17 (ii) if replaced with a manufactured or 

18 modular home, is replaced in an appro19 priate area (as determined by the applica20 ble State agency) with an Energy Star21 qualified manufactured or modular home. 

22 (B) THIRD-PARTY VERIFICATION REQUIRE23 MENTS.—The Secretary shall establish such 

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1 paragraph (A) are met. Such requirements shall 

2 provide that compliance with the requirement 

3 under subparagraph (A)(i) to destroy a dated 

4 manufactured home may be evidenced by means 

5 of a photograph of the destroyed manufactured 

6 home or of the lot where the manufactured 

7 home was located showing that the lot is vacant 

8 or the replacement home. 

9 (4) PROHIBITION ON PREVIOUS ASSISTANCE.— 

10 A grant or loan under paragraph (1)(A) may not be 

11 provided to any owner of a dated manufactured 

12 home that was or is a member of a household for 

13 which any member of the household has previously 

14 been provided a grant or loan pursuant to this sub15 section. 

16 (5) CONTROL OF HOME SITE.—As a condition 

17 of receipt of a grant or loan under paragraph (1)(A) 

18 for the purchase of a new manufactured or modular 

19 home, the land on which new manufactured or mod20 ular home is to be sited shall be— 

21 (A) owned by— 

22 (i) the owner of the dated manufac23 tured home to whom the grant or loan is 

24 provided; or 


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1 (ii) a limited equity cooperative, a 

2 nonprofit organization, a unit of local gov3 ernment or agency thereof, or a public 

4 housing agency; or 

5 (B) leased by the owner of the dated man6 ufactured home to whom the grant or loan is 

7 provided under a land-lease agreement having a 

8 duration not shorter than 10 years, which may 

9 include a lease from a community land trust or 

10 nonprofit housing corporation or a proprietary 

11 lease (perpetual or renewable as a matter of 

12 right) by a cooperative or homeowner associa13 tion that is owned or controlled by the home14 owners. 

15 (6) REQUIREMENTS FOR DECOMMISSIONING

16 GRANTS.—A grant under paragraph (1)(B) for the 

17 decommissioning of a dated manufactured home may 

18 be made only if— 

19 (A) the dated manufactured home for 

20 which the grant is made will be destroyed (in21 cluding appropriate recycling); 

22 (B) proof of, or adequate assurances for, 

23 decommissioning of the dated manufactured 

24 home is provided before the grant funds are 

25 paid, and the Secretary shall provide that such 


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1 proof may include a photograph of the de2 stroyed decommissioned home or of the lot 

3 where the decommissioned home was located 

4 showing that the lot is vacant or the replace5 ment home; 

6 (C) the owner agrees to repay the full 

7 amount of the grant if the home is not decom8 missioned within 90 days of receipt of the grant 

9 funds; and 

10 (D) no member of the household of the 

11 owner of the dated manufactured home for 

12 which the grant is provided has previously been 

13 provided a grant or loan pursuant to this sec14 tion. 

15 (d) ADMINISTRATION.— 

16 (1) CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.—Each 

17 grantee that receives a grant under this section shall 

18 establish such fiscal controls and accounting proce19 dures as are sufficient, as determined by the Sec20 retary, to ensure proper accounting for disburse21 ments made from the funds and fund balances. Such 

22 controls and procedures shall conform to generally 

23 accepted Federal accounting principles, as deter24 mined by the Secretary. 


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1 (2) COORDINATION WITH STATE AGENCIES.—A 

2 grantee of a grant under this section may coordinate 

3 efforts and share funds for administration with 

4 State and local agencies and nonprofit organizations 

5 involved in low-income housing programs. 

6 (3) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—A grantee 

7 may use not more than 10 percent of the funds pro8 vided under a grant under this section for adminis9 trative expenses involved in the grantee’s program 

10 for making grants and loans under subsection (c). 

11 (e) REPORTING.— 

12 (1) SECRETARY.—Upon the conclusion of the 

13 second fiscal year for which grants under the pro14 gram under this section are made and the conclusion 

15 of each of the next successive four fiscal years, the 

16 Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress de17 scribing the impact of the program, which shall in18 clude information regarding— 

19 (A) the number of dated manufactured 

20 homes decommissioned; 

21 (B) the number of new manufactured and 

22 modular homes purchased; 

23 (C) the incomes of families assisted; 

24 (D) the number of assisted families, 

25 disaggregated by State and ZIP Code; and 


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1 (E) the number of new Energy Star-quali2 fied manufactured and modular homes that 

3 were sited on land held under each type of ten4 ure described in subsection (c)(5). 

5 (2) GRANTEES.—The Secretary shall require 

6 grantees receiving grants under this section to sub7 mit such reports as may be necessary for the Sec8 retary to ensure compliance with this Act and enable 

9 the Secretary to comply with the requirement under 

10 paragraph (1). 

11 (f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 

12 following definitions shall apply: 

13 (1) DATED MANUFACTURED HOME.—The term 

14 ‘‘dated manufactured home’’ means a manufactured 

15 home constructed before December 31, 1994. In es16 tablishing requirements regarding demonstrating the 

17 date of construction of homes, the Secretary shall 

18 take into consideration the difficulty of producing 

19 evidence of the date of construction of homes manu20 factured before 1976. 

21 (2) ENERGY STAR-QUALIFIED.—The term ‘‘En22 ergy Star-qualified’’ means, with respect to a manu23 factured or modular home, that the home has been 

24 designed, produced, and installed by an Energy 

25 Star-certified entity in accordance with Energy Star 


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1 guidelines issued by the Secretary of Energy for 

2 manufactured or modular homes, as applicable. 

3 (3) LOW-INCOME FAMILY; VERY LOW-INCOME

4 FAMILY; EXTREMELY LOW-INCOME FAMILY.— 

5 (A) LOW-INCOME FAMILY.—The term 

6 ‘‘low-income family’’ means a family having an 

7 income that is not greater than 80 percent of 

8 area median income, with adjustments for 

9 smaller and larger families, as determined by 

10 the Secretary, except that such term includes 

11 any family that resides in a rural area that has 

12 an income that does not exceed the poverty line 

13 (as such term is defined in section 673(2) of 

14 the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 

15 (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), including any revision re16 quired by such section) applicable to a family of 

17 the size involved. 

18 (B) VERY LOW-INCOME FAMILY.—The 

19 term ‘‘very low-income family’’ means a family 

20 having an income that is not greater than 50 

21 percent of area median income, with adjust22 ments for smaller and larger families, as deter23 mined by the Secretary. 

24 (C) EXTREMELY LOW-INCOME FAMILY.— 

25 The term ‘‘extremely low-income family’’ means 


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1 a family having an income that is not greater 

2 than 30 percent of area median income, with 

3 adjustments for smaller and larger families, as 

4 determined by the Secretary. 

5 (4) MANUFACTURED HOME.—The term ‘‘manu6 factured home’ ’’ has the meaning given such term 

7 in section 603 of the National Manufactured Hous8 ing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 

9 (42 U.S.C. 5402) and such term includes any struc10 ture that meets such definition without regard to 

11 when it was constructed or manufactured. Such 

12 term includes single- and multi-section manufac13 tured homes. 

14 (5) MODULAR HOME.—The term ‘‘modular 

15 home’’ means a home that is constructed in a fac16 tory in one or more modules— 

17 (A) each of which meet applicable State 

18 and local building codes of the area in which 

19 the home will be located; and 

20 (B) that are transported to the home 

21 building site, installed on foundations, and com22 pleted. 

23 (6) QUALIFIED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.— 

24 The term ‘‘qualified nonprofit organization’’ means 

25 any private, nonprofit organization (including a 


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1 State or locally chartered nonprofit organization) 

2 that— 

3 (A) is organized under State or local laws; 

4 (B) has no part of its net earning inuring 

5 to the benefit of any member, founder, contrib6 utor or individual; 

7 (C) complies with standards of financial 

8 accountability acceptable to the Secretary; and 

9 (D) has among its purposes significant ac10 tivities related to the provision of decent hous11 ing that is affordable to low-income families. 

12 (7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

13 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 

14 (8) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the 

15 States of the United States, the District of Colum16 bia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Com17 monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, 

18 the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Trust Ter19 ritory of the Pacific Islands, and any other territory 

20 or possession of the United States. 

21 (9) UNIT OF GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT.— 

22 The term ‘‘unit of general local government’’ means 

23 a city, county, town, township, parish, village, or 

24 other general purpose subdivision of a State, or a 

25 consortium of such political subdivisions. 


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1 (g) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary may issue any 

2 regulations necessary to carry out the program under this 

3 section. 

4 (h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For 

5 grants under this section, there is authorized to be appro6 priated $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 through 

7 2025. 

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