Title: To modify certain requirements of LIHEAP for purposes of the use of certain funds appropriated in fiscal year 2020, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
This bill modifies requirements in FY2020 for the use of certain funds under the the low-income home energy assistance program.
Specifically, the bill requires each state, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and each Indian Tribe that receives funding under the program to (1) accept proof of job loss or severe income loss dated after February 29, 2020, such as a layoff or furlough notice or verification of application for unemployment benefits, as sufficient to demonstrate lack of income for an individual or household; and (2) not use more than 12.5% of such funding for administrative costs.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7662 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7662

  To modify certain requirements of LIHEAP for purposes of the use of 
certain funds appropriated in fiscal year 2020, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2020

 Ms. Stevens (for herself, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Young, Mrs. Dingell, and 
 Mr. Veasey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
Education and Labor, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To modify certain requirements of LIHEAP for purposes of the use of 
certain funds appropriated in fiscal year 2020, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. USE OF LIHEAP SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) Use of Funds.--Notwithstanding section 2605 of the Low-Income 
Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, with respect to amounts 
appropriated during the covered period to carry out the Low-Income Home 
Energy Assistance Act of 1981, each State, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands of the United States, 
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and each Indian 
Tribe, as applicable, that receives an allotment of funds from such 
amounts--
            (1) shall, in using such funds, for purposes of income 
        eligibility, accept proof of job loss or severe income loss 
        dated after February 29, 2020, such as a layoff or furlough 
        notice or verification of application for unemployment 
        benefits, as sufficient to demonstrate lack of income for an 
        individual or household; and
            (2) may use not more than 12.5 percent of such funds for 
        administrative costs.
    (b) Covered Period Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
period'' means the period that begins on the date of enactment of this 
Act and ends on September 30, 2020.
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