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.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires HUD and USDA to withdraw housing energy-efficiency standards, bars similar actions by several federal housing agencies, and reverts to prior standards.
Who Benefits and How
Home builders, housing finance participants, and covered housing programs could avoid the withdrawn energy-efficiency standards and similar future requirements.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal housing agencies would lose authority to implement or enforce the covered standards and would have to revert to earlier rules.
Key Provisions
- Requires HUD and USDA to withdraw a specified final determination on energy efficiency standards for financed housing.
- Bars HUD, USDA, VA, and FHFA from implementing or enforcing the covered determination or substantially similar rules.
- Changes the threshold for future code-related action under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires HUD and USDA to withdraw housing energy-efficiency standards, bars similar actions by several federal housing agencies, and reverts to prior standards.
Key Policy Areas
Housing, Energy, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires HUD and USDA to withdraw housing energy-efficiency standards, bars similar actions by several federal housing agencies, and reverts to prior standards.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Home builders, housing finance participants, and covered housing programs avoiding the standards
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal housing agencies required to withdraw and stop enforcing the standards
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Barrasso (for himself, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Ricketts, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Home builders, housing finance participants, and covered housing programs avoiding the standards
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
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