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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 replace-
ment 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 Develop-
ment to provide grants and loans to owners of dated 
manufactured homes for the replacement of such dated 
manufactured homes with Energy Star-qualified manu-
factured or modular homes, 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 ‘‘Energy Efficient Man-
ufactured Home Act of 2015’’. 
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SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE FOR REPLACEMENT OF DATED MANU-
FACTURED HOMES WITH ENERGY-EFFICIENT 
MANUFACTURED AND MODULAR HOMES. 
(a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development may carry out a program under this 
section to provide grants to assist low-income, very low- 
income, and extremely low-income owners of dated manu-
factured homes for the replacement of such dated manu-
factured homes with Energy Star-qualified manufactured 
or modular homes. 
(b) GRANTS.— 
(1) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—The Secretary may 
provide grants under this section only to— 
(A) State housing finance agencies; 
(B) units of general local government; and 
(C) qualified nonprofit organizations. 
(2) COMPETITION; PRIORITY.—The Secretary 
shall provide grants under this section through com-
petition that provides priority to applicants for such 
grants that, in accordance with criteria established 
by the Secretary— 
(A) demonstrate that providing a grant to 
the applicant would result in substantial energy 
gains and returns on investment on replacement 
of dated manufactured homes; 
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(B) will use grants in areas having the in-
frastructure or planned infrastructure necessary 
to replace dated manufactured homes; 
(C) will act in partnership with providers 
of high quality affordable lending products that 
enable sustainable homeownership; or 
(D) will supplement assistance provided to 
eligible owners of dated manufactured homes 
pursuant to a grant under this section with 
funds from other sources, and provide such as-
surances as the Secretary considers necessary 
to ensure that such supplemental amounts are 
available for such purpose. 
(3) USE
OF
FUNDS.—A grantee shall use 
amounts from a grant provided under this section 
only to provide assistance to owners of dated manu-
factured homes in accordance with subsection (c). 
(4) FAILURE
BY
GRANTEES
TO
ACT.—If a 
grantee fails to use any portion of grant provided 
under this section during the 36-month period begin-
ning on the date of receipt of the grant amounts— 
(A) the unused amount of the grant shall 
revert to the Secretary; and 
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(B) the Secretary shall make such amounts 
available under the competition required under 
paragraph (2). 
(c) ASSISTANCE.—Assistance under this subsection 
shall be assistance designed to enable the owner of a dated 
manufactured home to afford to replace or decommission 
such manufactured home, subject to the following condi-
tions: 
(1) FORM
OF
ASSISTANCE.—A grantee may 
provide assistance under this subsection to the 
owner of a dated manufactured home only in the fol-
lowing forms: 
(A) A grant or loan for use toward the 
purchase of a new Energy Star-qualified manu-
factured or modular home. The Secretary shall 
establish such requirements for loans made with 
assistance provided under this subsection, and 
servicers of such loans, as necessary to ensure 
that such loans are high quality affordable lend-
ing products that enable sustainable homeown-
ership. 
(B) A grant for the decommissioning, and 
any related costs, of a dated manufactured 
home. 
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(2) INCOME
AND
PRIMARY
RESIDENCE
RE-
QUIREMENTS.—A grant or loan under this sub-
section may be made only to the owner of a dated 
manufactured home who— 
(A) is a low-, very low-, or extremely low- 
income family; and 
(B) has used such manufactured home as 
a primary residence on a year-round basis for 
at least the preceding 24 months. 
(3) DESTRUCTION
AND
REPLACEMENT
OF 
DATED MANUFACTURED HOME.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—A grant or loan under 
paragraph (1)(A) may be made only if the ap-
plicable dated manufactured home will be— 
(i) destroyed (including appropriate 
recycling); and 
(ii) if replaced with a manufactured or 
modular home, is replaced in an appro-
priate area (as determined by the applica-
ble State agency) with an Energy Star- 
qualified manufactured or modular home. 
(B) THIRD-PARTY VERIFICATION REQUIRE-
MENTS.—The Secretary shall establish such 
third-party verification requirements as are nec-
essary to ensure that the requirements of sub-
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paragraph (A) are met. Such requirements shall 
provide that compliance with the requirement 
under subparagraph (A)(i) to destroy a dated 
manufactured home may be evidenced by means 
of a photograph of the destroyed manufactured 
home or of the lot where the manufactured 
home was located showing that the lot is vacant 
or the replacement home. 
(4) PROHIBITION ON PREVIOUS ASSISTANCE.— 
A grant or loan under paragraph (1)(A) may not be 
provided to any owner of a dated manufactured 
home that was or is a member of a household for 
which any member of the household has previously 
been provided a grant or loan pursuant to this sub-
section. 
(5) CONTROL OF HOME SITE.—As a condition 
of receipt of a grant or loan under paragraph (1)(A) 
for the purchase of a new manufactured or modular 
home, the land on which new manufactured or mod-
ular home is to be sited shall be— 
(A) owned by— 
(i) the owner of the dated manufac-
tured home to whom the grant or loan is 
provided; or 
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(ii) a limited equity cooperative, a 
nonprofit organization, a unit of local gov-
ernment or agency thereof, or a public 
housing agency; or 
(B) leased by the owner of the dated man-
ufactured home to whom the grant or loan is 
provided under a land-lease agreement having a 
duration not shorter than 10 years, which may 
include a lease from a community land trust or 
nonprofit housing corporation or a proprietary 
lease (perpetual or renewable as a matter of 
right) by a cooperative or homeowner associa-
tion that is owned or controlled by the home-
owners. 
(6) REQUIREMENTS
FOR
DECOMMISSIONING 
GRANTS.—A grant under paragraph (1)(B) for the 
decommissioning of a dated manufactured home may 
be made only if— 
(A) the dated manufactured home for 
which the grant is made will be destroyed (in-
cluding appropriate recycling); 
(B) proof of, or adequate assurances for, 
decommissioning of the dated manufactured 
home is provided before the grant funds are 
paid, and the Secretary shall provide that such 
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proof may include a photograph of the de-
stroyed decommissioned home or of the lot 
where the decommissioned home was located 
showing that the lot is vacant or the replace-
ment home; 
(C) the owner agrees to repay the full 
amount of the grant if the home is not decom-
missioned within 90 days of receipt of the grant 
funds; and 
(D) no member of the household of the 
owner of the dated manufactured home for 
which the grant is provided has previously been 
provided a grant or loan pursuant to this sec-
tion. 
(d) ADMINISTRATION.— 
(1) 
CONTROLS
AND
PROCEDURES.—Each 
grantee that receives a grant under this section shall 
establish such fiscal controls and accounting proce-
dures as are sufficient, as determined by the Sec-
retary, to ensure proper accounting for disburse-
ments made from the funds and fund balances. Such 
controls and procedures shall conform to generally 
accepted Federal accounting principles, as deter-
mined by the Secretary. 
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(2) COORDINATION WITH STATE AGENCIES.—A 
grantee of a grant under this section may coordinate 
efforts and share funds for administration with 
State and local agencies and nonprofit organizations 
involved in low-income housing programs. 
(3) ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPENSES.—A grantee 
may use not more than 10 percent of the funds pro-
vided under a grant under this section for adminis-
trative expenses involved in the grantee’s program 
for making grants and loans under subsection (c). 
(e) REPORTING.— 
(1) SECRETARY.—Upon the conclusion of the 
second fiscal year for which grants under the pro-
gram under this section are made and the conclusion 
of each of the next successive four fiscal years, the 
Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress de-
scribing the impact of the program, which shall in-
clude information regarding— 
(A) the number of dated manufactured 
homes decommissioned; 
(B) the number of new manufactured and 
modular homes purchased; 
(C) the incomes of families assisted; 
(D) the number of assisted families, 
disaggregated by State and ZIP Code; and 
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(E) the number of new Energy Star-quali-
fied manufactured and modular homes that 
were sited on land held under each type of ten-
ure described in subsection (c)(5). 
(2) GRANTEES.—The Secretary shall require 
grantees receiving grants under this section to sub-
mit such reports as may be necessary for the Sec-
retary to ensure compliance with this Act and enable 
the Secretary to comply with the requirement under 
paragraph (1). 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
following definitions shall apply: 
(1) DATED MANUFACTURED HOME.—The term 
‘‘dated manufactured home’’ means a manufactured 
home constructed before December 31, 1994. In es-
tablishing requirements regarding demonstrating the 
date of construction of homes, the Secretary shall 
take into consideration the difficulty of producing 
evidence of the date of construction of homes manu-
factured before 1976. 
(2) ENERGY STAR-QUALIFIED.—The term ‘‘En-
ergy Star-qualified’’ means, with respect to a manu-
factured or modular home, that the home has been 
designed, produced, and installed by an Energy 
Star-certified entity in accordance with Energy Star 
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guidelines issued by the Secretary of Energy for 
manufactured or modular homes, as applicable. 
(3) LOW-INCOME
FAMILY; VERY
LOW-INCOME 
FAMILY; EXTREMELY LOW-INCOME FAMILY.— 
(A) 
LOW-INCOME
FAMILY.—The 
term 
‘‘low-income family’’ means a family having an 
income that is not greater than 80 percent of 
area median income, with adjustments for 
smaller and larger families, as determined by 
the Secretary, except that such term includes 
any family that resides in a rural area that has 
an income that does not exceed the poverty line 
(as such term is defined in section 673(2) of 
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 
(42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), including any revision re-
quired by such section) applicable to a family of 
the size involved. 
(B) VERY
LOW-INCOME
FAMILY.—The 
term ‘‘very low-income family’’ means a family 
having an income that is not greater than 50 
percent of area median income, with adjust-
ments for smaller and larger families, as deter-
mined by the Secretary. 
(C) EXTREMELY LOW-INCOME FAMILY.— 
The term ‘‘extremely low-income family’’ means 
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a family having an income that is not greater 
than 30 percent of area median income, with 
adjustments for smaller and larger families, as 
determined by the Secretary. 
(4) MANUFACTURED HOME.—The term ‘‘manu-
factured home’ ’’ has the meaning given such term 
in section 603 of the National Manufactured Hous-
ing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5402) and such term includes any struc-
ture that meets such definition without regard to 
when it was constructed or manufactured. Such 
term includes single- and multi-section manufac-
tured homes. 
(5) MODULAR
HOME.—The term ‘‘modular 
home’’ means a home that is constructed in a fac-
tory in one or more modules— 
(A) each of which meet applicable State 
and local building codes of the area in which 
the home will be located; and 
(B) that are transported to the home 
building site, installed on foundations, and com-
pleted. 
(6) QUALIFIED
NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATION.— 
The term ‘‘qualified nonprofit organization’’ means 
any private, nonprofit organization (including a 
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State or locally chartered nonprofit organization) 
that— 
(A) is organized under State or local laws; 
(B) has no part of its net earning inuring 
to the benefit of any member, founder, contrib-
utor or individual; 
(C) complies with standards of financial 
accountability acceptable to the Secretary; and 
(D) has among its purposes significant ac-
tivities related to the provision of decent hous-
ing that is affordable to low-income families. 
(7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 
(8) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the 
States of the United States, the District of Colum-
bia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, 
the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Trust Ter-
ritory of the Pacific Islands, and any other territory 
or possession of the United States. 
(9) UNIT OF GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT.— 
The term ‘‘unit of general local government’’ means 
a city, county, town, township, parish, village, or 
other general purpose subdivision of a State, or a 
consortium of such political subdivisions. 
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(g) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary may issue any 
regulations necessary to carry out the program under this 
section. 
(h) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
grants under this section, there is authorized to be appro-
priated $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 through 
2025. 
Æ 
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