A bill to make available funds included in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program for fiscal year 2006, and for other purposes.

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on March 7, 2006. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to: (1) advance from FY2007 to FY2006 the fiscal year for which funds are appropriated for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP); (2) increase from $250 million (for FY2007) to $500 million for FY2006 the funding for LIHEAP allotments to states, insular areas, and Indian tribes, and for energy crisis intervention; (3) reduce from $750 million (for FY2007) to $500 million for FY2006 the funding for the allotment of emergency funds; and (4) repeal the limitation on such funds as a one-time only obligation and expenditure.

Bars use of the funds for certain state planning and administration purposes.

Accelerates the termination of such appropriation and related allocations and conditions from September 30, 2007, to September 30, 2006.

[109th Congress Public Law 204]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


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Public Law 109-204
109th Congress

                                 An Act


 
 To make available funds included in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 
for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program for fiscal year 2006, 
      and for other purposes. <<NOTE: Mar. 20, 2006 -  [S. 2320]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FUNDS FOR LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    Section 9001 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 <<NOTE: Ante, p. 
183.>> is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``for a 1-time only obligation and 
                expenditure'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``$250,000,000 for 
                fiscal year 2007'' and inserting ``$500,000,000 for 
                fiscal year 2006''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (2), by striking ``$750,000,000 for 
                fiscal year 2007'' and inserting ``$500,000,000 for 
                fiscal year 2006'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c);
            (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:

    ``(b) Limitation.--None of the funds made available under this 
section may be used for the planning and administering described in 
section 2605(b)(9) of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 
(42 U.S.C. 8624(b)(9)).''; and
            (4) in subsection (c) (as redesignated by paragraph (2)), by 
        striking ``September 30, 2007'' and inserting ``September 30, 
        2006''.

    Approved March 20, 2006.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 2320:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 152 (2006):
            Mar. 2, 3, 6, 7, considered and passed Senate.
            Mar. 15, 16, considered and passed House.

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