[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7282 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7282

To incentivize States not to enact costly, burdensome, and unreasonable 
         energy code housing policies, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2026

  Mr. Crank introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To incentivize States not to enact costly, burdensome, and unreasonable 
         energy code housing policies, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Freeing Residential Affordable 
Markets from Excess Regulation Act'' or the ``FRAMER Act''.

SEC. 2. ENERGY CODES IN OPPORTUNITY ZONES.

    (a) In General.--Section 104 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
    ``(n) Energy Codes in Opportunity Zones.--
            ``(1) In general.--To be eligible to receive amounts under 
        this title on or after the date that is 90 days after the date 
        of the enactment of this subsection, a State shall provide to 
        each person who built a covered dwelling unit in an opportunity 
        zone that is located in the jurisdiction of such entity, not 
        later than 30 days after such dwelling unit has been inspected 
        and certified for occupancy, a payment in the amount equal to 
        the difference, determined by the Secretary of Housing and 
        Urban Development, between--
                    ``(A) the cost of implementing the energy housing 
                code of the State with respect to such covered dwelling 
                unit, including costs associated with labor, supplies, 
                wages of employees, inspection costs, or any other cost 
                realized by the person who built a covered dwelling 
                unit; and
                    ``(B) the cost of implementing the Department of 
                Housing and Urban Development's Minimum Energy Standard 
                with respect to such covered dwelling unit, regardless 
                of whether such covered dwelling is subject to such 
                standard.
            ``(2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply if the 
        energy housing code of the State has a lower cost than the 
        Department of Housing and Urban Development's Minimum Energy 
        Standard.
            ``(3) Disclosure requirement.--A person who built a covered 
        dwelling unit in an opportunity zone and who has received or 
        may in the future receive a reimbursement for building costs 
        incurred shall provide to the person who first buys the covered 
        dwelling unit, using a procedure and form established by the 
        Secretary, a disclosure document that, based on information 
        reasonably available at the time such disclosure is made,--
                    ``(A) identifies the difference between the cost of 
                implementing the energy housing code of the State with 
                respect to such covered dwelling unit and the cost of 
                implementing the Department of Housing and Urban 
                Development's Minimum Energy Standard with respect to 
                such covered dwelling unit;
                    ``(B) identifies any amount that such person who 
                built a covered dwelling unit has received or expects 
                to receive from the a State under this section and any 
                portion of such amount that was used by such person to 
                reduce the price of the covered dwelling unit.
            ``(4) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) Covered dwelling unit.--The term `covered 
                dwelling unit' means a `residential building' such as 
                term is defined in section 6832 of title 42, Code of 
                Federal Regulations.
                    ``(B) Opportunity zone.--The term `opportunity 
                zone' has the meaning given the term in section 1400Z-2 
                of title 26, United States Code.''.
    (b) Report.--The Comptroller General of the United States shall, 
each year until the date described in subsection (c), submit a report 
to the Congress that, to the degree practicable--
            (1) lists the States that were required under Section 
        104(n) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to 
        provide payments to persons who built dwelling units;
            (2) the amount of each such payment, broken out by 
        metropolitan city, urban county, State, unit of general local 
        government, and insular area;
            (3) the total amount of all such payments, broken out by 
        metropolitan city, urban county, State, unit of general local 
        government, and insular area; and
            (4) the amount of the difference between the State codes 
        and Department of Housing and Urban Development's Minimum 
        Energy Standard by metropolitan city, urban county, State, unit 
        of general local government, and insular area.
    (c) Sunset.--Section 104(n) of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974, as added by this section, shall be repealed on 
the date that is 7 years after the date of the enactment of this 
section.
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