Sponsors (5)
The bill directs modest, targeted federal funds and updated rules to fix pre-weatherization barriers and expand full weatherization for low-income homes, trading off narrower eligibility, possible reduced per-unit assistance and administrative/legal uncertainty, and a small increase in federal spending.
Low-income households: Creates a dedicated $30 million/year (FY2026–2030) federal funding stream to fix structural pre-weatherization hazards so more homes can receive weatherization upgrades.
Low-income households: Allows per-unit assistance waivers when local market costs rise, increasing the ability to fully weatherize homes and reducing the number of denied upgrades due to high local prices.
State governments and program implementers: Provides a clear federal funding stream and updates program metrics (e.g., clarifying 'fully weatherized' and adjusting per-unit limits), which can simplify administration, improve targeting, and modernize program effectiveness.
Program recipients (renters and homeowners on limited incomes): Lowering the statutory per-unit cap (appears to change $6,500 to $5,000) could reduce the amount of assistance available per dwelling and leave some necessary measures unfunded unless waivers are granted.
State governments and recipients: New waiver rules, renumbered cross-references, and a numeric/typographic ambiguity about per-unit limits create administrative complexity and legal uncertainty that could delay implementation and aid distribution.
Low-income households: Changing eligibility language from 'partially weatherized' to 'fully weatherized' narrows who qualifies and could exclude units that previously received partial support.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a $30M/year FY2026–2030 Weatherization Readiness Fund for pre-weatherization repairs and revises per-unit cost limits and eligibility language in the Weatherization Assistance Program.
Introduced April 8, 2025 by John F. Reed · Last progress April 8, 2025
Creates a new Weatherization Readiness Fund to pay for repairs that fix structural defects or hazards that currently block installation of weatherization measures, and authorizes $30 million per year for fiscal years 2026–2030 for that fund. It also amends existing Weatherization Assistance Program cost limits and eligibility language: it changes several numeric per-unit limits, narrows a phrase from including "partially weatherized" units to "fully weatherized," raises one $3,000 figure to $6,000, and adds explicit authority for the Secretary to waive the per-unit limit when market conditions require higher spending. The bill includes a textual/typographical ambiguity in the replacement of a $6,500 per-unit limit (the draft appears to intend $5,000 but contains an insertion), which would be treated as a substantive numeric change if enacted. It also updates cross-references in the U.S. Code to reflect the renumbering of a paragraph.