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118TH CONGRESS REPT. 118-923
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
ENERGY POVERTY PREVENTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY
ACT OF 2024
DECEMBER 18, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 5482]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5482) to prevent energy poverty and ensure that at-risk
communities have access to affordable energy, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Energy Poverty Prevention and Accountability Act
of 2024.
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that-
(1) all Americans should have equal access to affordable and reliable energy
to maintain personal health and economic security;
(2) the United States should mitigate the disparate impact of increases in the
cost of energy on at-risk communities because those communities are more like-
ly to have a fixed income and spend a higher percentage of their income on en-
ergy compared to the general population; and
(3) to prevent energy poverty and ensure that each at-risk community has ac-
cess to affordable energy, the United States should ensure that Federal policies
will not increase the cost of energy for any at-risk community.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) AGENCY.-The term agency has the meaning given the term in section
551 of title 5, United States Code.
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