To provide that no more than 50 percent of funding made available under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 for any fiscal year be provided for home heating purposes.

January 4, 2005

Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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

To provide that no more than 50 percent of funding made available under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 for any fiscal year be provided for home heating purposes.

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 Equity Act of 2005'.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

Section 2604(a)(1) of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8623(a)(1)) is amended--

(1) in subparagraph (A) by striking `subparagraph (B)' and inserting `subparagraphs (B) and (C)'; and

(2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

`(C) Not more than 50 percent of amounts appropriated for carrying out this title for any fiscal year shall be provided for home heating purposes.'.

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