Pipeline · Bill → Law
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Introduced
Feb 9, 2023
Step 2
Referred
Feb 17, 2023
Education and Workforce · E&C
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Committee
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House floor
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Senate
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Resolve Changes
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Signed
SummaryCRS Summary
This bill provides additional energy assistance to households, including heating and cooling assistance. Specifically, the bill reauthorizes through FY2032 and revises the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Under the existing program, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may award grants to states for assisting low-income households that pay a high proportion of their income for home energy. To be eligible under the existing program, households must have incomes which do not exceed the greater of an amount equal to 150% of the poverty level for their state or an amount equal to 60% of the state median income. The bill expands eligibility to households with incomes which...
Timeline · 4 actions
Feb 17, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security.
Feb 9, 2023
Introduced in House
Feb 9, 2023
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.
Feb 9, 2023
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.