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Shown Here: Introduced in House (12/08/2011)
112th CONGRESS 1st Session
H. R. 3626
To provide level funding for the Low-Income Home Energy
Assistance Program.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 8, 2011
Ms. Pingree of Maine
(for herself, Mr. Michaud,
Mr. Welch,
Mr. Langevin,
Mr. Cicilline, and
Mr. Markey) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on
Energy and Commerce and
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
A BILL
To provide level funding for the Low-Income Home Energy
Assistance Program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1.Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
“LIHEAP Protection
Act”.
SEC. 2. Low-income home
energy assistance appropriations.
(a) Purpose.—The
purpose of this section—
(1) is to ensure the
appropriation for fiscal year 2012 of the total amounts described in subsection
(b), for payments described in that subsection, under this Act or prior
appropriations Acts; and
(2) is not to require
the appropriation of additional amounts for those payments, under
appropriations Acts enacted after this Act.
(b) Appropriation.—In addition to any amounts appropriated
under any provision of Federal law, as of the date of enactment of this Act,
there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for fiscal year 2012—
(1) an amount
sufficient to yield a total amount of $4,501,000,000, for making payments under
subsections (b) and (d) of section 2602 of the Low-Income Home Energy
Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621), and all of such total amount shall be
used under the authority and conditions applicable to such payments under the
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011; and
(2) an amount
sufficient to yield a total amount of $200,000,000, for making payments under
section 2602(e) of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C.
8621(e)), notwithstanding the designation requirement of such section 2602(e),
and all of such total amount shall be used under the authority and conditions
applicable to such payments under the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act,
2011.
SEC. 3. Sense of the
Congress.
It is the sense of
the Congress that—
(1) this Act should be
carried out in a manner consistent with the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Public
Law 112–25; 125 Stat. 240);
(2) the Secretary of
Health and Human Services should continue and expedite program integrity
efforts to identify best practices used by grant recipients under the
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, provide training and technical
assistance to such grant recipients, recommend policy changes, and assess and
mitigate risk at the Federal, State and local levels, in order to eliminate any
waste, fraud, and abuse in the Program and strengthen the Program so all
Program funds reach the households who need them most; and
(3) every Program
dollar going to waste, fraud, and abuse is a dollar not being spent as the
dollar is needed or intended.
