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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 75 
To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Sec-
retary of Agriculture to withdraw a final determination relating to energy 
efficiency standards for housing, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 3, 2025 
Mr. BIGGS of Arizona (for himself, Mr. OGLES, and Mr. HIGGINS of Lou-
isiana) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans’ Af-
fairs, 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. 
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 ‘‘Helping Owners with 
Unaffordable Shoddy Edicts Act of 2025’’ or the 
‘‘HOUSE Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR HOUSING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture— 
(1) shall withdraw the final determination an-
nounced in the notice of final determination entitled 
‘‘Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New 
Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Hous-
ing’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 33112); 
(2) may not take any action or use any Federal 
funds to implement or enforce the final determina-
tion described in paragraph (1) or any substantially 
similar final determination; and 
(3) shall revert energy efficiency standards for 
covered programs under such final determination to 
the energy efficiency standards required before such 
final determination. 
(b) ACTION BY ADDITIONAL AGENCIES.— 
(1) DEPARTMENT
OF
VETERANS
AFFAIRS.— 
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not take any 
action or use any Federal funds to implement or en-
force a final determination that is substantially simi-
lar to the final determination described in subsection 
(a)(1). 
(2) FEDERAL
HOUSING
FINANCE
AGENCY.— 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Di-
rector of the Federal Housing Finance Agency may 
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not finalize, implement, or enforce a determination 
or rule relating to energy efficiency standards for 
single and multifamily housing. 
(c) CONSIDERATION OF STATE STANDARDS.—Sec-
tion 109(d) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12709(d)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) not less than 26 States have adopted an 
energy efficiency code or standard that meets or ex-
ceeds the requirements of the revised code or stand-
ard.’’. 
Æ 
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