# H.R. 4758 (119th): Homeowner Energy Freedom Act

Homeowner Energy Freedom Act This bill repeals the Department of Energy's (1) high-efficiency electric home rebate program for certain electrification projects in low- or moderate-income households, (2) state-based home energy efficiency contractor training grants, and (3) assistance for states and local governments to adopt specified building energy codes. It also rescinds any unobligated balances available for the rebates or adopting the building energy codes. (The unobligated balances for the contractor training grants were previously rescinded by the 2025 reconciliation act.)

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: building_codes. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: energy_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: property_rights. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulatory_burden. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulatory_reform. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: spending_rescission. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 77: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 78: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: This is a generic energy-policy and federal spending dispute. It removes discretionary subsidies and federal code assistance, which raises prudential concerns about spending, federal reach, and property autonomy, but the summary shows no direct advancement of moral harm and no direct restraint of a named evil. The measure therefore falls under mixed or prudential rather than good or evil.
Theological note: The bill raises stewardship and prudence questions: whether public funds are well spent, whether federal subsidies for household energy upgrades and building codes overreach the proper role of civil government, and whether homeowners and local communities retain appropriate discretion over their property. Scripture grounds civil authority in limited, equitable service and calls for faithful stewardship of resources, but these questions are largely prudential and do not by themselves establish a moral verdict.

## Recorded votes

Roll 77: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 198 · Nay 208 · Other 26.
Roll 78: On Passage. Yea 210 · Nay 199 · Other 23.

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