HR 5184
Passed a chamber
Lets the Energy Department recommend changes to federal energy efficiency standards for manufactured homes, requires those recommendations to weigh cost and home prices, and voids a 2022 Energy Department rule setting those standards.
Official title: Affordable HOMES Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
08-SEP-2025
Referred
08-SEP-2025
Approved by committee
03-DEC-2025
Reported
30-DEC-2025
On the calendar
30-DEC-2025
Passed
09-JAN-2026
Senate
Received
12-JAN-2026
- Allows the Secretary of Energy to send the Housing Secretary recommendations for revising energy conservation standards for manufactured homes.
- Requires any recommendation to assess cost-effectiveness over the home's life, estimate the effect on initial purchase prices, and consider factory construction limits and climate zones.
- Strikes the existing provision that required periodic updates to these recommendations.
- Declares a May 31, 2022 Department of Energy final rule on energy conservation standards for manufactured housing to have no force or effect.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Reported to House" (30-DEC-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 09-JAN-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
- Energy Subcommittee
- Energy and Natural Resources Committee (Senate)
Energy
■ 4 R■ 1 D
4 Republicans
1 Democrat