{"id":187,"date":"2010-05-07T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2010-09-29T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:00:49","slug":"us-house-of-representatives-passes-home-star-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/us-house-of-representatives-passes-home-star-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"US House of Representatives passes Home Star legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 (HR 5019) passed the US House of Representatives by a vote of 246-161 on May 6th, 2010.  By providing rebates to homeowners who invest in making their homes more energy efficiency, this legislation will reduce US energy usage, save homeowners money and create jobs.  <\/p>\n<p>The bill&#8217;s sponsors in the House Energy and Commerce Committee estimate that Home Star will<sup id=\"_ref-HR_0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"#_note-HR\" title=\"\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>enable <strong>3 million homes<\/strong> to be retrofit<\/li>\n<li>save homeowners <strong>$9.2 billion<\/strong> on energy over the next 10 years<\/li>\n<li>create <strong>168,000<\/strong> jobs, many in the hard-hit construction sector<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/home-star-legislation\/\">April blog post summarizing the key provisions of the bill<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>Other resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/Press_111\/20100503\/hr5019_text.pdf\">Full text of the bill<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"margin-top: 3em\">References:<\/h4>\n<ol class=\"references\">\n<li id=\"_note-HR\"><a href=\"#_ref-HR_0\" title=\"\">&uarr; <\/a> House Committee on Energy and Commerce &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=1986:h-r-5019-the-home-star-energy-retrofit-act-of-2010&#038;catid=169:legislation&#038;Itemid=55\">H. R. 5019<\/a>, the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 (HR 5019) passed the US House of Representatives by a vote of 246-161 on May 6th, 2010. By providing rebates to homeowners who invest in making their homes more energy efficiency, this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[121,58],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy-federal","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-home-star","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}