US Congress House Bill 6533 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-5)
Status: Introduced on September 21 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-09-21 - Referred to House Education and the Workforce
Pending: House Education And The Workforce Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), from any appropriations for a fiscal year containing a qualifying winter season, to allot to each qualifying state, at least 25% of whose households use heating oil as the primary heating fuel, an amount that is at least the same as that allotted to the state for FY2010. Requires that allotments to states that do not qualify under this Act be ratably reduced if necessary to ensure the allotments to qualifying states. Defines a "qualifying winter season" as one occurring after enactment of this Act for which the projected average price of heating oil is greater than the average price for the winter of 2011-2012.

To establish minimum levels of assistance for certain States under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and for other purposes.

Rep. Michael Michaud [D-ME]	Rep. Gary Ackerman [D-NY]	Rep. Charles Bass [R-NH]	Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]
Rep. Barney Frank [D-MA]	Rep. Michael Grimm [R-NY]	Rep. Frank Guinta [R-NH]	Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]
Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D-NY]	Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]
Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]	Rep. John Olver [D-MA]
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. John Tierney [D-MA]
Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Edolphus Towns [D-NY]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Don Young [R-AK]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-09-21	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2012-09-21	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2012-09-21	House	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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/6533/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr6533/BILLS-112hr6533ih.pdf