Path to Affordable Homes Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-11-21Topic: energy · housing · climate

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This bill changes how the U.S. Secretary of Energy decides whether to update federal building energy efficiency standards after new versions of the ASHRAE Standard or the International Energy Conservation Code are approved. Within one year of each new version, the Secretary would have to weigh the cost-effectiveness, technological feasibility, and effect on electric grid reliability of the new requirements. The Secretary would also have to consider how directly the requirements relate to energy efficiency and whether they would require a building to switch to a different type or source of energy. If the requirements would force a building to switch away from fossil fuel-generated energy, the Secretary must count that as a reason against making the update.

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Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2025-11-22	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.	refer
2025-11-21	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.	refer
2025-11-21	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.	refer
2025-11-21		Introduced in House	introduce
2025-11-21		Introduced in House	introduce

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