HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS BILL TO REPEAL GREEN NEW DEAL MANDATES THAT ADD TO HOME PRICES
Support legislation to repeal Green New Deal housing mandates that increase home prices.
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S.3178 was introduced by Sen. Barrasso for himself and other senators including Mrs. Hyde-Smith. The bill requires HUD and USDA to withdraw the final determination titled Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Housing, bars implementation or enforcement of that determination or substantially similar determinations, and reverts covered programs to prior energy-efficiency standards.
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Congress.gov lists S.3178 as a bill to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture to withdraw a final determination relating to energy efficiency standards for housing. Latest action: read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on November 18, 2025. The tracker status is Introduced.
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HUD and USDA announced a final determination adopting the 2021 IECC and ASHRAE 90.1-2019 for covered new construction of HUD- and USDA-financed housing, with an effective date of May 28, 2024 and compliance dates varying by program type.
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The Federal Register notice estimates the average per-unit incremental cost for adopting the 2021 IECC over the HUD/USDA 2009 IECC baseline at $7,229 for single-family housing, and describes that as a 2.2 percent increase in the median cost of a new FHA-insured home in 2023.
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The promise was framed as supporting legislation, not securing enactment of a repeal. Hyde-Smith materially fulfilled that by joining S.3178 at introduction in the 119th Congress, a bill aimed at requiring HUD and USDA to withdraw and bar enforcement of the targeted housing energy-efficiency standards. The bill had not become law in the evidence provided, but that does not prevent fulfillment of a support-legislation promise. Effort credit is warranted because this was concrete legislative action on the promised policy.