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HR 6915 115th Congress House

Building Efficiently Act of 2018

Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the new energy efficient home credit, and for other purposes.

Introduced: September 26, 2018 See on congress.gov
Taxation Energy efficiency and conservationEnvironmental technologyIncome tax creditsIncome tax deductions
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Lease and rental servicesLow- and moderate-income housingResidential rehabilitation and home repair
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sep 26, 2018
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 Latest action September 26, 2018

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Building Efficiently Act of 2018

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the new energy efficient home tax credit to allow, in lieu of the existing credit, a credit for 3.3% of the cost of constructing a new energy efficient home that is a qualified energy efficient residential rental property.

An energy efficient residential rental property must be certified as being constructed, reconstructed, or retrofitted under a plan designed to reduce energy and power consumption of the building by at least 40% compared to: (1) the baseline annual energy and power consumption of the building in the case of a retrofit made to an existing building, or (2) a reference building which meets the minimum requirements of the International Energy Conservation Code 2004 in any other case.

The bill also eliminates the basis reduction requirements for low-income housing properties receiving: (1) the new energy efficient home credit, (2) the energy efficient commercial buildings deduction, or (3) the credit for investments in energy property.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 6408 Reintroduction of Building Efficiently Act of 2016
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6915: Building Efficiently Act of 2018. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-6915/
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"H.R. 6915: Building Efficiently Act of 2018." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-6915/.
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H.R. 6915, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-6915/.
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