Low Income Heating Improvement Act

Bill: 113-hr-3860
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2014-01-13
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Latest action: action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-01-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Low Income Heating Improvement Act - Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to revise the formula for a state's allotment percentage for low-income home energy assistance to make it the percentage the state would have received under such Act as originally enacted in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981. </p> <BR>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 3860 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 13, 2014 Mr. Reed (for himself, Mr. Michaud , Mr. Gibson , and Mr. Rahall ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce , 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 revise the formula for allocating funding to States under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Low Income Heating Improvement Act . 2. LIHEAP State allocation formula Section 2604(a)(2) of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 ( 42 U.S.C. 8623(a)(2) ) is amended to read as follows: (2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a State's allotment percentage is the percentage which that State would have received under this section as enacted in Public Law 97–35 . .