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112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3626 
To provide level funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance 
Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 8, 2011 
Ms. PINGREE of Maine (for herself, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. WELCH, Mr. LAN-
GEVIN, Mr. CICILLINE, and Mr. MARKEY) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition 
to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and Education and the 
Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide level funding for the Low-Income Home Energy 
Assistance Program. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘LIHEAP Protection 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE APPRO-
PRIATIONS. 
(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section— 
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(1) is to ensure the appropriation for fiscal year 
2012 of the total amounts described in subsection 
(b), for payments described in that subsection, under 
this Act or prior appropriations Acts; and 
(2) is not to require the appropriation of addi-
tional amounts for those payments, under appropria-
tions Acts enacted after this Act. 
(b) APPROPRIATION.—In addition to any amounts 
appropriated under any provision of Federal law, as of the 
date of enactment of this Act, there is appropriated, out 
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
for fiscal year 2012— 
(1) an amount sufficient to yield a total amount 
of $4,501,000,000, for making payments under sub-
sections (b) and (d) of section 2602 of the Low-In-
come Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 
U.S.C. 8621), and all of such total amount shall be 
used under the authority and conditions applicable 
to such payments under the Full-Year Continuing 
Appropriations Act, 2011; and 
(2) an amount sufficient to yield a total amount 
of $200,000,000, for making payments under sec-
tion 2602(e) of the Low-Income Home Energy As-
sistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621(e)), notwith-
standing the designation requirement of such section 
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2602(e), and all of such total amount shall be used 
under the authority and conditions applicable to 
such payments under the Full-Year Continuing Ap-
propriations Act, 2011. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of the Congress that— 
(1) this Act should be carried out in a manner 
consistent with the Budget Control Act of 2011 
(Public Law 112–25; 125 Stat. 240); 
(2) the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices should continue and expedite program integrity 
efforts to identify best practices used by grant re-
cipients under the Low-Income Home Energy Assist-
ance Program, provide training and technical assist-
ance to such grant recipients, recommend policy 
changes, and assess and mitigate risk at the Fed-
eral, State and local levels, in order to eliminate any 
waste, fraud, and abuse in the Program and 
strengthen the Program so all Program funds reach 
the households who need them most; and 
(3) every Program dollar going to waste, fraud, 
and abuse is a dollar not being spent as the dollar 
is needed or intended. 
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