[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3063 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3063

 To amend the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to provide 
      for an additional allocation of funds to the insular areas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 23, 2011

Mr. Sablan (for himself, Mr. Pierluisi, Mrs. Christensen, Ms. Bordallo, 
and Mr. Faleomavaega) introduced the following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to provide 
      for an additional allocation of funds to the insular areas.

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

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO INSULAR AREAS.

    Section 2604 of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 
(42 U.S.C. 8623) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1)(A), by striking ``subsection 
        (b)(1)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)(1)(A)''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)(1)--
                    (A) by striking ``(b)(1)'' before ``The Secretary 
                shall apportion not less than'' and inserting 
                ``(b)(1)(A)'';
                    (B) by striking ``under this paragraph'' and 
                inserting ``under this subparagraph'', each place it 
                appears; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
    ``(B) Beginning in fiscal year 2013, and for each fiscal year 
thereafter, the Secretary shall allocate not less than 30 percent of 
the amount appropriated pursuant to section 2602(d) for such fiscal 
year to the jurisdictions to which subparagraph (A) applies to provide 
supplementary funds to such jurisdictions for carrying out this title 
on the basis of need among such jurisdictions.''.
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