LIHEAP Parity Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1700 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1700

 To amend the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to improve 
                 the formula for allotments to States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 8, 2025

Mr. Kelly (for himself and Mr. Gallego) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to improve 
                 the formula for allotments to States.

    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 Parity Act''.

SEC. 2. ALLOTMENTS.

    Section 2604(a)(2) of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 
1981 (42 U.S.C. 8623(a)(2)) is amended by striking ``, except that 
States'' and all that follows and inserting a period.

SEC. 3. REGULATIONS.

    (a) Calculation.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
issue a regulation that specifies the method to be used to calculate 
State allotments under section 2604(a)(2) of the Low-Income Home Energy 
Assistance Act of 1981, consistent with the amendment made by section 
2, ensuring that the method will accurately allot the funds involved.
    (b) Data Sources.--In issuing the regulation, the Secretary shall 
specify--
            (1) the data sources to be used by Administration for 
        Children and Families to make the State allotments; and
            (2) how often the data sources shall be updated, and means 
        of updating the data sources sufficiently, to ensure the 
        accuracy of the State allotments.
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