HR 5184
Affordable HOMES Act
Summary
Affordable Housing Over Mandating Efficiency Standards Act or the Affordable HOMES Act This bill rescinds Department of Energy (DOE) energy efficiency regulations applicable to manufactured housing and eliminates DOE’s authority to issue similar regulations. Specifically, the bill rescinds the DOE final rule titled Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Manufactured Housing and published on May 31, 2022. Under the bill, DOE may provide recommendations to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for revisions to energy conservation standards applicable to manufactured housing. These recommendations must comply with criteria established by the bill, including by being based on the determination of the cost-effectiveness of such revision.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Erin Houchin [R-IN-9]
- Cosponsors
- 5
- Policy area
- Energy
- Introduced
- 2025-09-08
- Latest action
- 2026-01-12: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2026-01-12: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- 2026-01-09: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
- 2026-01-09: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2026-01-09: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 263 - 147 (Roll no. 12). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H595)
- 2026-01-09: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 263 - 147 (Roll no. 12).