This bill establishes the Home Heating Fuel Assistance Program and the Office of Home Heating Fuel Assistance within the Department of Health and Human Services. The Commissioner of Health and Human Services must engage in cost-effective purchasing practices to maximize the use of public funds, including purchases of home heating fuel before the heating season begins, fixed price agreements, automatic home heating fuel delivery and negotiations with home heating fuel suppliers on behalf of program recipients. The commissioner must establish by rule income eligibility requirements and how to determine the amount of benefits an eligible person may receive. The commissioner is also required to certify home heating fuel suppliers to be eligible to participate in the program. The Office of Home Heating Fuel Assistance administers the program and the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, develops and recommends policy changes for the commissioner, explores alternative and additional funding possibilities, both public and private, and prepares an annual report. The bill establishes the Home Heating Fuel Assistance Task Force to advise the office. The bill requires the commissioner to set aside funds for the crisis home heating fuel assistance component of the program and adopt rules governing crisis situations for the expenditure of the home heating fuel crisis funds and to establish the income eligibility requirements of households for receipt of crisis home heating fuel assistance. The bill also directs the Public Utilities Commission to require natural gas suppliers to provide a discount program to income-eligible customers.