HB 50

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction

Delaware

Session

153

Chamber

lower

Classification

bill

Subjects

Not supplied

Introduced / first action

2025-04-10 00:00:00

Alternate titles

• DE Energy Fund/Create short title

Source-supplied abstracts

This House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 50 creates the Delaware Energy Fund to provide assistance to consumers whose household income is less than 350% of the federal poverty level. Under 2025 federal guidelines, 350% of the federal poverty level for a single person is $54,775 and for a family of four is $112,525. The Delaware Energy Fund will be administered by the SEU and recipients of assistance from the fund will also be required to participate in energy savings and efficiency programs. Only one assistance payment may be made per application. The Act also directs the Department of Natural Resources Environmental Control to transfer 30% of the funds generated by alternative compliance payments and solar alternative compliance payments to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The Substitute also changes existing code language to require, rather than allow, 5% of CO2 allowance proceeds to be directed to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The Act sunsets 3 years after its enactment.

Sponsors

• Debra Heffernan (primary), primary
• Trey Paradee (primary), primary
• Kerri Evelyn Harris (primary), primary
• Edward S. Osienski (primary), primary
• Brian Pettyjohn (primary), primary
• Melanie Ross Levin (primary), primary
• Darius J. Brown (primary), primary
• Claire Snyder-Hall (primary), primary
• Russell Huxtable (primary), primary
• Laura V. Sturgeon (primary), primary
• Bryan Townsend (primary), primary
• Bryant L. Richardson (primary), primary
• William Bush (primary), primary
• William J. Carson (primary), primary
• Sarah McBride (primary), primary
• Franklin D. Cooke (primary), primary
• Nicole Poore (primary), primary
• Ray Seigfried (primary), primary
• Spiros Mantzavinos (primary), primary
• Marie Pinkney (primary), primary
• Josue O Ortega (primary), primary
• Cyndie Romer (primary), primary
• Dave G. Lawson (primary), primary
• Madinah Wilson-Anton (primary), primary
• Mara Gorman (primary), primary
• David P. Sokola (primary), primary
• John "Jack" Walsh (primary), primary