1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Home Owner Managing Energy Savings Act of 2019 or the HOMES Act . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) BPI The term BPI means the Building Performance Institute. (2) Energy audit The term energy audit means an inspection, survey, and analysis of energy flows for energy conservation in a building, process, or system to reduce the amount of energy input into the system without negatively affecting the output. An energy audit is the first step in identifying opportunities to reduce energy expense and carbon footprints. (3) Electric utility The term electric utility means any company, person, cooperative, State, or Indian tribe agency that delivers or sells electric energy at retail, including nonregulated utilities, utilities that are subject to State or Indian tribe rate regulation, and Federal power marketing administrations. (4) Federal rebate processing system The term Federal Rebate Processing System means the Federal Rebate Processing System established under section 3(b). (5) Home The term home means a residential dwelling unit in a building with no more than 4 dwelling units that— (A) is located in the United States; (B) was constructed before the date of enactment of this Act