(C) the State Energy Efficiency Programs 
Improvement Act of 1990 (Public Law 101– 
440; 104 Stat. 1006); 
(D) the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 
U.S.C. 13201 et seq.); 
(E) the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 
U.S.C. 15801 et seq.); and 
(F) the Energy Independence and Security 
Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17001 et seq.); 
(3) the SEP, also known as the ‘‘State energy 
conservation program’’— 
(A) was first created in 1975 to implement 
a State-based, national program in support of 
energy efficiency, renewable energy, economic 
development, energy emergency preparedness, 
and energy policy; and 
(B) has come to operate in every sector of 
the economy in support of the private sector to 
improve productivity and has dramatically re-
duced the cost of government through energy 
savings at the State and local levels; 
(4) Federal laboratory studies have concluded 
that, for every Federal dollar invested through the 
SEP, more than $7 is saved in energy costs and al-
most $11 in non-Federal funds is leveraged; 
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(5) the WAP— 
(A) was first created in 1976 to assist low- 
income families in response to the first oil em-
bargo; 
(B) has become the largest residential en-
ergy conservation program in the United 
States, with more than 7,100,000 homes weath-
erized since the WAP was created; 
(C) saves an estimated 35 percent of con-
sumption in the typical weatherized home, yield-
ing average annual savings of $437 per year in 
home energy costs; 
(D) has created thousands of jobs in both 
the construction sector and in the supply chain 
of materials suppliers, vendors, and manufac-
turers who supply the WAP; 
(E) returns $2.51 in energy savings for 
every Federal dollar spent in energy and non-
energy benefits over the life of weatherized 
homes; 
(F) serves as a foundation for residential 
energy efficiency retrofit standards, technical 
skills, and workforce training for the emerging 
broader market and reduces residential and 
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power plant emissions of carbon dioxide by 2.65 
metric tons each year per home; and 
(G) has decreased national energy con-
sumption by the equivalent of 24,100,000 bar-
rels of oil annually; 
(6) the WAP can be enhanced with the addition 
of a targeted portion of Federal funds through an 
innovative program that supports projects performed 
by qualified nonprofit organizations that have a 
demonstrated capacity to build, renovate, repair, or 
improve the energy efficiency of a significant num-
ber of low-income homes; 
(7) the WAP has increased energy efficiency 
opportunities by promoting new, competitive public- 
private sector models of retrofitting low-income 
homes through new Federal partnerships; 
(8) improved monitoring and reporting of the 
work product of the WAP has yielded benefits, and 
expanding independent verification of efficiency work 
will support the long-term goals of the WAP; 
(9) reports of the Government Accountability 
Office in 2011, Inspector General of the Department 
of Energy, and State auditors have identified State- 
level deficiencies in monitoring efforts that can be 
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addressed in a manner that will ensure that WAP 
funds are used more effectively; 
(10) through the history of the WAP, the WAP 
has evolved with improvements in efficiency tech-
nology, including, in the 1990s, many States adopt-
ing advanced home energy audits, which has led to 
great returns on investment; and 
(11) as the home energy efficiency industry has 
become more performance-based, the WAP should 
continue to use those advances in technology and the 
professional workforce. 
TITLE I—WEATHERIZATION 
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
SEC. 101. REAUTHORIZATION OF WEATHERIZATION ASSIST-
ANCE PROGRAM. 
Section 422 of the Energy Conservation and Produc-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 6872) is amended by striking ‘‘appro-
priated—’’ and all that follows through the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘appropriated $450,000,000 for each 
of fiscal years 2015 through 2019.’’. 
SEC. 102. GRANTS TO ELIGIBLE HOUSING AND NONPROFIT 
ORGANIZATIONS. 
The Energy Conservation and Production Act is 
amended by inserting after section 414B (42 U.S.C. 
6864b) the following: 
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‘‘SEC. 414C. GRANTS TO ELIGIBLE HOUSING AND NON-
PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are— 
‘‘(1) to expand the number of low-income, sin-
gle-family and multifamily homes that receive energy 
efficiency retrofits; 
‘‘(2) to promote innovation and new models of 
retrofitting low-income homes through new Federal 
partnerships with covered organizations that lever-
age donations, donated materials, volunteer labor, 
homeowner labor equity, and other private sector re-
sources; 
‘‘(3) to assist the covered organizations in dem-
onstrating, evaluating, improving, and replicating 
widely the model low-income energy retrofit pro-
grams of the covered organizations; and 
‘‘(4) to ensure that the covered organizations 
make the energy retrofit projects undertaken by the 
covered organizations with awarded funds self-sus-
taining by the time grant funds have been expended. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘covered 
organization’ means an organization that— 
‘‘(1) is described in section 501(c)(3) of the In-
ternal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax-
ation under 501(a) of that Code; and 
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