I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2486 
To amend the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to increase 
the availability of heating and cooling assistance, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 31, 2025 
Ms. ANSARI (for herself, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. BELL, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CAR-
TER of Louisiana, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, 
Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. COHEN, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. 
DEGETTE, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. EVANS of Pennsylvania, Mr. FIELDS, Mr. 
HUFFMAN, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. LEE of Pennsyl-
vania, Mrs. MCIVER, Ms. MENG, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. MULLIN, 
Ms. NORTON, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. OMAR, Ms. PETTERSEN, Mrs. 
RAMIREZ, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SMITH of Washington, 
Mr. THANEDAR, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. TITUS, Ms. TLAIB, 
and Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act 
of 1981 to increase the availability of heating and cooling 
assistance, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Heating and Cooling 
Relief Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that: 
(1) Energy remains unaffordable for low-income 
households. Nationally, low-income households spend 
a larger portion of their income on home energy 
costs than other households. While the average en-
ergy burden for non-low-income households is ap-
proximately 3 percent, low-income households experi-
ence energy burdens that are 3 times higher, with 1 
in 4 low-income households spending more than 15 
percent of their income on energy bills. The report 
for the Household Pulse Survey of the Bureau of the 
Census, issued on October 3, 2024, noted that, for 
families with incomes of less than $35,000 a year, 
about 54 percent said that they reduced or went 
without basic household necessities, such as medicine 
or food, in order to pay an energy bill, for at least 
one month in the last year. 
(2) The Low-Income Housing Energy Assist-
ance Program was authorized by Congress to reduce 
home energy burdens with heating and cooling as-
sistance. In 2023, only 18 percent of income-eligible 
households received a subsidy under the program. 
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(3) Climate change is fueling increasingly in-
tense winter storms, frequent hurricanes and 
wildfires, and extreme temperatures. Over the past 
2 decades, the United States has seen a 135 percent 
increase in billion-dollar winter disasters, fueled by 
climate change, rising from 31 of those disasters 
from 1985 through 2004, to 73 of those disasters 
from 2005 through 2024. 
(4) Heat waves are increasingly common as cli-
mate change accelerates, and now occur more often 
in major cities across the United States. According 
to reports from the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, 2024 was the hottest year on record 
in Earth’s history. The average heat wave season 
across 50 cities is approximately 46 days longer now 
than it was in the 1960s, and the American Medical 
Association found that heat-related deaths have in-
creased by over 16 percent per year since 2016. 
However, in fiscal year 2023, less than 3 percent of 
income-eligible households received cooling assistance 
under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance 
Program, with only 7 percent of funding from the 
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program 
going toward cooling needs. As a result, the Federal 
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Government should provide further cooling assist-
ance for communities in need. 
(5) As a result of rising home energy bills and 
insufficient Federal funding for the Low-Income 
Home Energy Assistance Program, residential utility 
arrears, or the amount of funds owed by households 
to their utilities, has climbed to an all-time high of 
over $21,000,000,000 as of September 2024, with 
over 21,000,000 households in debt to electric utili-
ties and over 15,000,000 households in debt to nat-
ural gas companies. Nearly 1 out of every 7 house-
holds is behind on their electric or gas bill. 
(6) While most States have shutoff protections 
that prevent utility companies from disconnecting a 
customer’s energy service during the coldest winter 
months, 10 States have no winter shutoff protec-
tions, and 29 States have no summer shutoff protec-
tions. Even in certain States with winter or summer 
shutoff protections, shutoffs continue to increase as 
the period around the hottest and coldest months 
lengthens. 
(7) The loss of home energy service due to high 
energy burdens is one of the primary reasons for 
homelessness, especially for families with children. 
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In some housing contexts, loss of home energy serv-
ice is a grounds for eviction. 
(8) The Federal Government should expand and 
update the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance 
Program, as part of a robust Federal social safety 
net, to— 
(A) protect families against unaffordable 
home energy bills and home energy shutoffs, by 
providing sufficient funding and imposing regu-
lations where necessary; 
(B) ensure all low- and moderate-income 
families have access to affordable home cooling 
powered by renewable energy, which will enable 
households to adapt to rising temperatures due 
to climate change and promote climate and en-
ergy resiliency; 
(C) enhance timely and meaningful public 
participation and outreach— 
(i) by including nontraditional part-
ners, including home energy suppliers, 
local educational agencies, and entities car-
rying out other programs for low-income 
people, to assist with signups; and 
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(ii) by adding stronger provisions for 
presumed eligibility and waiving docu-
mentation requirements for eligibility; and 
(D) further Federal efforts to weatherize 
housing for low- and moderate-income house-
holds, to help families struggling to pay their 
home energy bills and to meet national clean 
energy goals. 
SEC. 3. FUNDING. 
Section 2602 of the Low-Income Home Energy As-
sistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘section 2607A)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘section 2604(e), 2605(u), 2607A, 
2607B, or 2607C)’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘$2,000,000,000’’ and all 
that follows and inserting ‘‘such sums as may 
be necessary, including such sums as may be 
necessary to enable the States to assist all 
households that meet the eligibility require-
ments established under this title and to enable 
States to implement home energy affordability 
measures described in section 2605(b)(3).’’; 
(2) in subsection (e), in the first sentence— 
(A) by striking ‘‘in each fiscal year’’; 
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(B) by striking ‘‘$600,000,000’’ and in-
serting ‘‘$2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2026, 
and $2,000,000,000 plus such additional sums 
as may be necessary for each fiscal year there-
after,’’; and 
(C) by inserting ‘‘, or arising from a major 
disaster, as defined in section 2604(e)(1)’’ be-
fore the period at the end; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry 
out section 2607C, including making grants under that 
section, $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2026, and 
$1,000,000,000 plus such additional sums as may be nec-
essary for each fiscal year thereafter.’’. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 2603 of the Low-Income Home Energy As-
sistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8622) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through 
(6), (7) through (10), and (11), as paragraphs (6) 
through (8), (10) through (13), and (15), respec-
tively; 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(4) The terms ‘extreme heat’ and ‘extreme 
cold’, used with respect to a period, means a period 
in which there is an increased risk of— 
‘‘(A) heat-related or cold-related, respec-
tively, illness, hospitalization, or death; or 
‘‘(B) failures or energy shutoffs of home 
cooling or heating, respectively. 
‘‘(5) The term ‘HEAP coordinator’ means an 
employee— 
‘‘(A) who administers a program funded 
under section 2602(b); and 
‘‘(B) whose salary is paid, partly or wholly, 
with funds made available under that section.’’; 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (8), as so re-
designated, the following: 
‘‘(9) The term ‘local coordinating agency’ 
means any local organization or local office that re-
ceives funds under section 2602(b) to perform cus-
tomer intake, or approval of benefits, on behalf of 
the State agency.’’; and 
(4) by inserting after paragraph (13), as so re-
designated, the following: 
‘‘(14) The term ‘State agency’ means any State 
agency that administers the program funded under 
section 2602(b).’’. 
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SEC. 5. ASSISTANCE FOR EMERGENCIES AND MAJOR DIS-
ASTERS, INCLUDING EXTREME HEAT AND 
COLD. 
Section 2604 of the Low-Income Home Energy As-
sistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8623) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)(B), by striking ‘‘section 
2605(b)(9)(B)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘section 
2605(b)(10)(B)’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(e)’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(e)(1) In this subsection: 
‘‘(2)’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(A) The term ‘covered household’ means 
an eligible household in an area where the 
President, or the Secretary, as the case may be, 
has declared or determined the occurrence of a 
natural disaster, emergency, or major disaster. 
‘‘(B) The term ‘major disaster’ means— 
‘‘(i) a major disaster or emergency de-
clared under section 401 or 501, respec-
tively, of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5170, 5191); 
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‘‘(ii) a public health emergency deter-
mined under section 319 of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d); or 
‘‘(iii) a period of extreme heat or ex-
treme cold, as determined by the Sec-
retary.’’; 
(C) in paragraph (2), as so designated, by 
striking ‘‘natural disaster or other emergency 
involved’’ and inserting ‘‘natural disaster, emer-
gency, or major disaster involved’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) Upon a declaration or a determination of 
a natural disaster, emergency, or major disaster, for 
an area, the Secretary and the Administrator of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency shall, to 
the extent practicable, provide heating or cooling as-
sistance through such an allotment to a State for 
covered households in that area. 
‘‘(4) To receive assistance under this sub-
section, the State that has jurisdiction over the cov-
ered households shall provide assurances to the Sec-
retary that the State— 
‘‘(A) will not preclude a household that re-
ceives heating assistance or cooling assistance 
under this title during a calendar year, on the 
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basis of obtaining that assistance, from receiv-
ing cooling assistance or heating assistance, re-
spectively, under this title during that year; 
‘‘(B) will not require a household to indi-
cate that a household member has a medical 
need for assistance under this title, to be eligi-
ble for that assistance; and 
‘‘(C) will allow use of such assistance for 
purposes for which heating or cooling assistance 
is available under the program funded under 
section 2602(b), including for providing energy- 
efficient air conditioners, and other equipment 
needed for home cooling, to eligible house-
holds.’’. 
SEC. 6. ELIGIBLE HOUSEHOLDS. 
Section 2605 of the Low-Income Home Energy As-
sistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8624) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking 
‘‘paragraph (5)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph 
(6)’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A), by inserting ‘‘, subject to sub-
section (c)(1)(A),’’ after ‘‘only’’; 
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(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘(B)’’ and all that follows through clause 
(ii) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(B) households with incomes which do not 
exceed the greater of— 
‘‘(i) an amount equal to 250 percent 
of the poverty level; or 
‘‘(ii) an amount equal to 80 percent of 
the State median income,’’; and 
(iii) in the matter following subpara-
graph (B)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘may give’’ and 
inserting ‘‘shall give’’; and 
(II) by inserting before the semi-
colon the following: ‘‘, and the State 
may not exclude a household from eli-
gibility on the basis of citizenship of 1 
or more of the household members’’; 
(C) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(3) 
through (16) as paragraphs (4) through (17), 
respectively; 
(D) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 
following: 
‘‘(3) ENERGY BURDEN LIMITS.—To the extent 
practicable, the Secretary shall work with States 
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using funding under section 2602(b) (supplemented 
by funding available through State-level energy pro-
grams, utility affordability initiatives, or other mech-
anisms as determined by the State in consultation 
with the Secretary) to implement home energy af-
fordability measures— 
‘‘(A) to ensure that no household eligible 
under paragraph (2) experiences an energy bur-
den for which the expenditures of the household 
for home energy exceed 3 percent of household 
income; and 
‘‘(B) to prioritize the further reduction of 
energy burdens for such eligible households 
with the lowest incomes.’’; and 
(E) in subparagraph (B) of paragraph 
(10), as so redesignated, by striking ‘‘para-
graph (16)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (17)’’; 
(2) in subsection (c)(1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘as-
sistance to be provided under this title, includ-
ing criteria’’ and inserting ‘‘assistance to be 
provided under this title, including— 
‘‘(i) certifying that the State and local 
coordinating agencies in the State— 
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‘‘(I) shall, to the greatest extent 
possible, use data sharing agreements 
with Federal and State low-income as-
sistance programs, including the sup-
plemental nutrition assistance pro-
gram established under the Food and 
Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 
et seq.), the Medicaid program estab-
lished under title XIX of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.), 
and the supplemental security income 
program established under title XVI 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1381 et seq.), to verify eligibility; 
‘‘(II) shall implement simplified 
re-enrollment procedures for house-
holds with fixed incomes or house-
holds already determined to be eligible 
under other Federal and State low-in-
come assistance programs, to reduce 
administrative burdens on applicants 
and agencies; 
‘‘(III) shall not require applicants 
to submit proof of citizenship to es-
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(4) in subsection (f), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(3) For purposes of section 401(c), and the re-
mainder of title IV, of the Personal Responsibility 
and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 
U.S.C. 1611(a), 1601 et seq.), assistance under this 
title shall not be considered to be a Federal public 
benefit.’’; and 
(5) in subsection (j), by striking ‘‘the State may 
apply’’ and inserting ‘‘the State may, subject to sub-
section (c)(1)(A)(i), apply’’. 
SEC. 7. CONDITIONS FOR FUNDING. 
Section 2605 of the Low-Income Home Energy As-
sistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8624) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(C), by inserting be-
fore the semicolon the following: ‘‘, using toxics- 
free materials that do not contain asthmagens 
or respiratory sensitizers, giving priority in the 
use of those funds under this subparagraph, to 
the greatest extent practicable, to supporting 
emergency home repairs that foster energy effi-
ciency, decarbonization, and climate resilience, 
including through beneficial electrification of 
heating and cooling’’; 
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(B) in paragraph (8), as so redesignated— 
(i) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; and 
(ii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(E) ensure that— 
‘‘(i) the home energy supplier will not 
charge late fees for any payment, by a 
household receiving assistance through the 
program funded under section 2602(b), 
during the period beginning 6 months be-
fore and ending 6 months after a date on 
which the supplier receives funds through 
the program for the household; and 
‘‘(ii) if the supplier receives funds 
through the program for such a household 
and charged such late fees during that pe-
riod, the supplier shall refund the fees to 
the household not later than 7 days after 
the date the supplier receives the funds; 
‘‘(F) ensure that the home energy supplier 
will not shut off home energy from a household 
that received assistance through the program 
funded under section 2602(b), within the 2-year 
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period beginning on the date the household re-
ceived the assistance; 
‘‘(G) ensure that the home energy supplier, 
in return for receiving funds through the pro-
gram funded under section 2602(b)— 
‘‘(i) will provide to the State data on 
households that have not paid their home 
energy bills, to enable the State and the 
supplier to carry out coordinated outreach 
concerning assistance available through the 
program funded under section 2602(b); 
and 
‘‘(ii) will, when sending a notice of 
late payments to such households, include 
information on such assistance, on how to 
access such assistance through the pro-
gram, and on eligibility criteria for the 
program; and 
‘‘(H) ensure that the home energy supplier 
will, not later than 2 years after the date of en-
actment of the Heating and Cooling Relief Act, 
in return for receiving assistance under the pro-
gram funded under section 2602(b) and 
through a partnership with the State, offer a 
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low-income energy affordability payment pro-
gram;’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (10), as so redesig-
nated— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘10 percent’’ and 
inserting ‘‘15 percent’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
and 
(ii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(C) in planning and administering that 
program, the State shall use the portion of the 
amount described in subparagraph (A), that ex-
ceeds 10 percent of the funds described in sub-
paragraph (A), to expand the State program 
funded under section 2602(b) so that the State 
operates the program on a year-round basis; 
and 
‘‘(D) in planning and administering that 
program, the State— 
‘‘(i) shall make technological changes 
to allow, not later than 5 years after the 
date of enactment of the Heating and 
Cooling Relief Act, for online submission of 
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applications for assistance through that 
program; and 
‘‘(ii) shall, to the extent practicable— 
‘‘(I) conduct outreach activities, 
including activities to increase enroll-
ment as described in subsection (p); 
‘‘(II) ensure that all HEAP coor-
dinators in the State receive wages, 
for administration funded under sec-
tion 2602(b), at not less than the 
greater of $15 per hour or the appli-
cable Federal, State, or local min-
imum wage rate; 
‘‘(III) 
conduct 
training 
for 
HEAP coordinators, State agency 
staff, and community partners on best 
practices for outreach, application 
processing, 
and 
assisting 
eligible 
households; 
‘‘(IV) as needed, conduct out-
reach relating to the program funded 
under section 2602(b) to rural electric 
cooperatives, home energy suppliers 
owned by a political subdivision of a 
State, such as a municipally owned 
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electric utility, and home energy sup-
pliers owned by any agency, authority, 
corporation, or instrumentality of a 
political subdivision of a State; and 
‘‘(V) ensure autoenrollment of el-
igible households into the program 
funded under section 2602(b), and in 
the process document any potential 
barriers to autoenrollment that need 
to be clarified or otherwise addressed 
at the Federal level;’’; 
(2) in subsection (c)(1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (G), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (H) as 
subparagraph (I); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (G) 
the following: 
‘‘(H) describes how the State will expand the 
State program funded under section 2602(b) so that 
the State operates the program on a year-round 
basis in accordance with subsection (b)(10)(C) and 
the measures the State has taken so far to carry out 
that expansion; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
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