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42 U.S.C. § 8621 — Home energy grants
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**(a) Authorization** The Secretary is authorized to make grants, in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, to States to assist low-income households, particularly those with the lowest incomes, that pay a high proportion of household income for home energy, primarily in meeting their immediate home energy needs.
**(b) Authorization of appropriations** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this subchapter (other than [section 8626a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8626a&num=0&edition=prelim)), $2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1995 through 1999, such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2000 and 2001, and $5,100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2007. The authorizations of appropriations contained in this subsection are subject to the program year provisions of subsection (c).
**(c) Availability of appropriations** Amounts appropriated under this section for any fiscal year for programs and activities under this subchapter shall be made available for obligation in the succeeding fiscal year.
**(d) Authorization of appropriations for leveraged resources**
(1) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out [section 8626a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8626a&num=0&edition=prelim), $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1999 through 2004, except as provided in paragraph (2).
(2) For any of fiscal years 1999 through 2004 for which the amount appropriated under subsection (b) is not less than $1,400,000,000, there is authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 to carry out [section 8626a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section86
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**(a) Authorization** The Secretary is authorized to make grants, in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, to States to assist low-income households, particularly those with the lowest incomes, that pay a high proportion of household income for home energy, primarily in meeting their immediate home energy needs.
**(b) Authorization of appropriations** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this subchapter (other than [section 8626a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8626a&num=0&edition=prelim)), $2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1995 through 1999, such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2000 and 2001, and $5,100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2007. The authorizations of appropriations contained in this subsection are subject to the program year provisions of subsection (c).
**(c) Availability of appropriations** Amounts appropriated under this section for any fiscal year for programs and activities under this subchapter shall be made available for obligation in the succeeding fiscal year.
**(d) Authorization of appropriations for leveraged resources**
(1) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out [section 8626a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8626a&num=0&edition=prelim), $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1999 through 2004, except as provided in paragraph (2).
(2) For any of fiscal years 1999 through 2004 for which the amount appropriated under subsection (b) is not less than $1,400,000,000, there is authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 to carry out [section 8626a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8626a&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(e) Emergency funds** There is authorized to be appropriated in each fiscal year for payments under this subchapter, in addition to amounts appropriated for distribution to all the States in accordance with [section 8623 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8623&num=0&edition=prelim) (other than subsection (e) of such section), $600,000,000 to meet the additional home energy assistance needs of one or more States arising from a natural disaster or other emergency. Funds appropriated pursuant to this subsection are hereby designated to be emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 [[2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(D)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section901/b/2/D&num=0&edition=prelim)], except that such funds shall be made available only after the submission to Congress of a formal budget request by the President (for all or a part of the appropriation pursuant to this subsection) that includes a designation of the amount requested as an emergency requirement as defined in such Act [[2 U.S.C. 900](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section900&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.].
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**(a) Enforcement in House of Representatives** It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives to consider a rule or order that waives the application of [section 658d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section658d&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Disposition of points of order**
(1) **Application to House of Representatives** — This subsection shall apply only to the House of Representatives.
(2) **Threshold burden** — In order to be cognizable by the Chair, a point of order under [section 658d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section658d&num=0&edition=prelim) or subsection (a) of this section must specify the precise language on which it is premised.
(3) **Question of consideration** — As disposition of points of order under [section 658d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section658d&num=0&edition=prelim) or subsection (a) of this section, the Chair shall put the question of consideration with respect to the proposition that is the subject of the points of order.
(4) **Debate and intervening motions** — A question of consideration under this section shall be debatable for 10 minutes by each Member initiating a point of order and for 10 minutes by an opponent on each point of order, but shall otherwise be decided without intervening motion except one that the House adjourn or that the Committee of the Whole rise, as the case may be.
(5) **Effect on amendment in order as original text** — The disposition of the question of consideration under this subsection with respect to a bill or joint resolution shall be considered also to determine the question of consideration under this subsection with respect to an amendm
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**(a) Form; assurances; public hearings**
(1) Each State desiring to receive an allotment for any fiscal year under this subchapter shall submit an application to the Secretary. Each such application shall be in such form as the Secretary shall require. Each such application shall contain assurances by the chief executive officer of the State that the State will meet the conditions enumerated in subsection (b).
(2) After the expiration of the first fiscal year for which a State receives funds under this subchapter, no funds shall be allotted to such State for any fiscal year under this subchapter unless such State conducts public hearings with respect to the proposed use and distribution of funds to be provided under this subchapter for such fiscal year.
**(b) Certifications required for covered activities** As part of the annual application required by subsection (a), the chief executive officer of each State shall certify that the State agrees to—
(1) use the funds available under this subchapter to—
(A) conduct outreach activities and provide assistance to low income households in meeting their home energy costs, particularly those with the lowest incomes that pay a high proportion of household income for home energy, consistent with paragraph (5);
(B) intervene in energy crisis situations;
(C) provide low-cost residential weatherization and other cost-effective energy-related home repair; and
(D) plan, develop, and administer the State’s program under this subchapter including leveraging programs,
and the State agrees not to use such funds for any purposes other than those specified in this subchapter;
(2) make payments under this subchapter only with respect to—
(A) households in which 1 or more individuals are receiving—
(i) assistance u
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of the Residential Energy Assistance Challenge (in this section referred to as “R.E.A.Ch.”) program is to—
(1) minimize health and safety risks that result from high energy burdens on low-income Americans;
(2) prevent homelessness as a result of inability to pay energy bills;
(3) increase the efficiency of energy usage by low-income families; and
(4) target energy assistance to individuals who are most in need.
**(b) Funding**
(1) **Allocation** — For each fiscal year, the Secretary may allocate not more than 25 percent of the amount made available pursuant to [section 8621(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8621/d&num=0&edition=prelim) for such fiscal year to a R.E.A.Ch. fund for the purpose of making incentive grants to States that submit qualifying plans that are approved by the Secretary as R.E.A.Ch. initiatives. States may use such grants for the costs of planning, implementing, and evaluating the initiative.
(2) **Reservation** — The Secretary shall reserve from any funds allocated under this subsection, funds to make additional payments to State R.E.A.Ch. programs that—
(A) have energy efficiency education services plans that meet quality standards established by the Secretary in consultation with the Secretary of Energy; and
(B) have the potential for being replicable model designs for other programs.
States shall use such supplemental funds for the implementation and evaluation of the energy efficiency education services.
**(c) Criteria**
(1) **In general** — Not later than May 31, 1995, the Secretary shall establish criteria for approving State plans required by subsection (a), for energy efficiency education quality standards described in subsection (b)(2)(
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**(a) Omitted**
**(b) General statement of budget enforcement through sequestration** This subchapter provides for budget enforcement as called for in House Concurrent Resolution 84 (105th Congress, 1st session).
**(c) Definitions** As used in this subchapter:
(1) The terms “budget authority”, “new budget authority”, “outlays”, and “deficit” have the meanings given to such terms in section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 [[2 U.S.C. 622](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section622&num=0&edition=prelim)] and “discretionary spending limit” shall mean the amounts specified in [section 901 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section901&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) The terms “sequester” and “sequestration” refer to or mean the cancellation of budgetary resources provided by discretionary appropriations or direct spending law.
(3) The term “breach” means, for any fiscal year, the amount (if any) by which new budget authority or outlays for that year (within a category of discretionary appropriations) is above that category’s discretionary spending limit for new budget authority or outlays for that year, as the case may be.
(4)
(A) The term “nonsecurity category” means all discretionary appropriations not included in the security category defined in subparagraph (B).
(B) The term “security category” includes discretionary appropriations associated with agency budgets for the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the intelligence community management account (95–0401–0–1–054), and all budget accounts in budget function 150 (international affairs).
(C
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**(a) In general** This subchapter shall not apply to the credit or insurance activities of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Administration, Resolution Trust Corporation, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, National Flood Insurance, National Insurance Development Fund, Crop Insurance, or Tennessee Valley Authority.
**(b) Study** The Director and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall each study whether the accounting for Federal deposit insurance programs should be on a cash basis on the same basis as loan guarantees, or on a different basis. Each Director shall report findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress on or before May 31, 1991.
**(c) Access to data** For the purposes of subsection (b), the Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office shall have access to all agency data that may facilitate these studies.
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**(a)** The receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund and the taxes imposed under sections 1401 and 3101 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall not be included in the totals of the budget of the United States Government as submitted by the President or of the congressional budget and shall be exempt from any general budget limitation imposed by statute on expenditures and net lending (budget outlays) of the United States Government.
**(b)** No provision of law enacted after December 12, 1985 (other than a provision of an appropriation Act that appropriated funds authorized under this chapter as in effect on December 12, 1985) may provide for payments from the general fund of the Treasury to any Trust Fund specified in subsection (a) or for payments from any such Trust Fund to the general fund of the Treasury.
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**(a) Allotment of funds** Beginning in fiscal year 1992, the Secretary may allocate amounts appropriated under [section 8621(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8621/d&num=0&edition=prelim) to provide supplementary funds to States that have acquired non-Federal leveraged resources for the program established under this subchapter.
**(b) “Leveraged resources” defined** For purposes of this section, the term “leveraged resources” means the benefits made available to the low-income home energy assistance program of the State, or to federally qualified low-income households, that—
(1) represent a net addition to the total energy resources available to State and federally qualified households in excess of the amount of such resources that could be acquired by such households through the purchase of energy at commonly available household rates; and
(2)
(A) result from the acquisition or development by the State program of quantifiable benefits that are obtained from energy vendors through negotiation, regulation or competitive bid; or
(B) are appropriated or mandated by the State for distribution—
(i) through the State program; or
(ii) under the plan referred to in [section 8624(c)(1)(A) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8624/c/1/A&num=0&edition=prelim) to federally qualified low-income households and such benefits are determined by the Secretary to be integrated with the State program.
**(c) Formula for distribution of amounts**
(1) Distribution of amounts made available under this section shall be based on a formula developed by the Secretary that is designed to take into account the success in leveraging existing appropriations in the pre
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### Statutory Notes
Section, Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 310A, as added Pub. L. 92–419, title I, § 117, Aug. 30, 1972, 86 Stat. 663, related to insured watershed and resource conservation and development loans.
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**(a) Enforcement**
(1) **Sequestration** — Within 15 calendar days after Congress adjourns to end a session there shall be a sequestration to eliminate a budget-year breach, if any, within any category.
(2) **Eliminating a breach** — Each non-exempt account within a category shall be reduced by a dollar amount calculated by multiplying the enacted level of sequestrable budgetary resources in that account at that time by the uniform percentage necessary to eliminate a breach within that category.
(3) **Military personnel** — If the President uses the authority to exempt any personnel account from sequestration under [section 905(f) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section905/f&num=0&edition=prelim), each account within subfunctional category 051 (other than those military personnel accounts for which the authority provided under [section 905(f) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section905/f&num=0&edition=prelim) has been exercised) shall be further reduced by a dollar amount calculated by multiplying the enacted level of non-exempt budgetary resources in that account at that time by the uniform percentage necessary to offset the total dollar amount by which outlays are not reduced in military personnel accounts by reason of the use of such authority.
(4) **Part-year appropriations** — If, on the date specified in paragraph (1), there is in effect an Act making or continuing appropriations for part of a fiscal year for any budget account, then the dollar sequestration calculated for that account under paragraphs (2) and (3) shall be subtracted from—
(A) the annualized amount otherwise available by law in that account under that or a subsequent part-year appropriation
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**(a)**
(1) From its allotment under [section 8623 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8623&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary shall make payments to each State in accordance with [section 6503(a) of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section6503/a&num=0&edition=prelim), for use under this subchapter.
(2) Each State shall notify the Secretary, not later than 2 months prior to the close of a fiscal year, of the amount (if any) of its allotment for such year that will not be obligated in such year, and, if such State elects to submit a request described in subsection (b)(2), such State shall submit such request at the same time. The Secretary shall make no payment under paragraph (1) to a State for a fiscal year unless the State has complied with this paragraph with respect to the prior fiscal year.
**(b)**
(1) If—
(A) the Secretary determines that, as of September 1 of any fiscal year, an amount allotted to a State under [section 8623 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8623&num=0&edition=prelim) for any fiscal year will not be used by such State during such fiscal year;
(B) the Secretary—
(i) notifies the chief executive officer of such State; and
(ii) publishes a timely notice in the Federal Register;
that, after the 30-day period beginning on the date of the notice to such chief executive officer, such amount may be reallotted; and
(C) the State does not request, under paragraph (2), that such amount be held available for such State for the following fiscal year;
then such amount shall be treated by the Secretary for purposes of this subchapter as an amount appropriated for the followin
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