H.F. 4424 Summary

• Department of Commerce establishes a grant program to fund purchase and installation of residential biomass heating systems for homeowners of residential or agricultural homesteads.

• Grants cover up to the lesser of $5,000 or 33 percent of the total cost to purchase and install an eligible system.

• Eligible systems include pellet stoves, wood heaters, residential forced-air furnaces, and residential hydronic heaters that are certified by the federal Environmental Protection Agency as meeting 2015 New Source Performance Standards for air emissions.

• Homeowners submit applications to the commissioner on a prescribed form, with grants awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Appropriates unspecified amounts from the account established in section 116C.779 for fiscal years 2019 and 2020, with unspent fiscal year 2019 funds rolling over and unspent fiscal year 2020 funds reverting to the account.