Sponsor
Edward John Markey
Senator · D-MA
Senator · D-MA
The bill expands support for indoor air quality and energy‑efficiency upgrades—especially for older and low‑income adults, including renters—reducing health risks and utility costs but increasing program and project costs and creating implementation and landlord/tenant challenges.
Seniors and other older adults will be able to receive home air‑quality monitors and ventilation upgrades, reducing indoor pollution exposure and health risks.
Older homeowners and renters can get funding for HVAC, cooling, heating, and other energy‑efficiency modifications, which will lower household utility bills.
Low‑income older adults will have program assistance to access LIHEAA and Interior/Energy programs, improving affordability of utilities and energy upgrades.
Expanding allowable services and beneficiaries will likely increase program costs, which could require additional federal/state funding or crowd out other services paid by taxpayers.
Prioritizing low‑GHG or specific technologies may limit contractor availability and raise short‑term project costs, slowing implementation or increasing out‑of‑pocket expenses.
Applying services in multi‑family or mixed‑age homes can create landlord/tenant coordination challenges and legal barriers to making modifications in rental units.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds air-quality improvements, cooling/heating/efficiency upgrades, and help accessing utility assistance to allowable supportive services for older adults and extends applicability to rentals and multifamily homes.
Introduced April 21, 2026 by Edward John Markey · Last progress April 21, 2026
Expands the list of housing-related supportive services that federal grants can fund for older adults to include air-quality monitoring and improvements, home modifications to ensure adequate cooling/heating and energy efficiency while favoring low‑emission technologies, and help obtaining utility and power assistance through energy assistance programs. It also clarifies that these services may be provided in multifamily buildings, rental units, and homes where older and non‑older residents live together.