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.

Bill: 118-s-4958
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2024-08-01
Policy area: Energy
Latest action: action_date: 2024-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-08-01
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong></strong>This bill directs the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to withdraw the final determination titled<em> Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Housing</em> and published on April 26, 2024.</p><p>The determination adopted updated minimum energy efficiency standards for newly built homes (except manufactured housing) financed through certain HUD and USDA programs. Specifically, it adopted the (1) 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), which&nbsp;applies to single family homes and multifamily low-rise buildings up to three stories; and (2) 2019&nbsp;American National Standards Institute/American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers/Illuminating Electrical Society (ANSI/ASHRAE/IES) Standard 90.1, which&nbsp;applies to multifamily residential buildings with four or more stories. HUD and USDA must also revert to using the energy efficiency standards required before the determination.</p><p>In addition, the bill prohibits HUD, USDA, and the Department of Veterans Affairs from taking actions or using federal funds to implement or enforce the determination or any substantially similar determination. It also prohibits the Federal Housing Finance Agency from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a determination or rule relating to energy efficiency standards for single and multifamily housing.</p><p>Finally, the bill prohibits HUD and USDA from adopting updates to the IECC or ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 in certain circumstances unless&nbsp;at least 26 states have adopted codes or standards that meet or exceed the update's requirements.</p>

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4958 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES August 1, 2024 Mr. Braun (for himself, Mrs. Capito , Mr. Marshall , Mr. Schmitt , Mr. Ricketts , Mrs. Blackburn , Ms. Lummis , Mr. Young , and Mr. Barrasso ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 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.

1. 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 announced in the notice of final determination entitled Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Housing (89 Fed. Reg. 33112); (2) may not take any action or use any Federal funds to implement or enforce the final determination described in paragraph (1) or any substantially similar final determination; and (3) shall revert energy efficiency standards for covered programs under the final determination described in paragraph (1) to the energy efficiency standards required before the 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 enforce a final determination that is substantially similar to the final determination described in subsection (a)(1). (2) Federal Housing Finance Agency Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency may not finalize, implement, or enforce a determination or rule relating to energy efficiency standards for single and multifamily housing. (c) Consideration of State standards Section 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 fewer than 26 States have adopted an energy efficiency code or standard that meets or exceeds the requirements of the revised code or standard. .