Comprehensive Energy Conservation Act for the 21st Century
Latest action · Mar 6, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedNov 9, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Increases funding for the Energy Star program. Raises average fuel economy standards for passenger automobiles and light trucks.
Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to set forth a Federal renewable portfolio standard that requires every retail electric supplier to submit Renewable Energy Credits to the Secretary of Energy according to prescribed annual percentages of the total electric energy sold by the supplier to electric consumers during the calendar year.
Amends Federal transportation law to mandate: (1) certain tire rating standards; and (2) a national tire fuel efficiency program.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow credits against the income tax for specified percentages of: (1) purchases of Energy Star products; and (2) the purchase of fuel-efficient American-made passenger vehicles.
Imposes an excise tax upon the windfall profit on sale of any electricity, fuel oil, natural gas, coal, or other taxable product. Establishes the Windfall Profits Fund as the depository for such tax.
Establishes the Reasonable Profits Board to make profit determinations relating to windfall profit on the sale of electricity, fuel oil, natural gas, coal, and products thereof.
Cosponsors 12
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 19, 2001 to Jan 29, 2002.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Nov 19, 2001 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Nov 19, 2001 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Nov 27, 2001 | |
| D-CA | Hilda L. Solis | Nov 27, 2001 | |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Nov 29, 2001 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Nov 29, 2001 | |
| D-HI | Patsy T. Mink | Dec 4, 2001 | |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Dec 10, 2001 | |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Dec 13, 2001 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Dec 13, 2001 | |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | Dec 17, 2001 | |
| D-NC | Melvin L. Watt | Jan 29, 2002 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 6, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Nov 28, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
- Nov 9, 2001Introduced in House
- Nov 9, 2001Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Administrative fees
- Alternative energy sources
- Authorization
- Automobile fuel consumption
- Automobile industry
- Biomass energy
- Business income tax
- Buy American
- Coal
- Collective bargaining agreements
- Commerce
- Consumer education
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electric power production
- Electric utilities
- Energy
- Energy assistance for the poor
- Energy conservation
- Energy efficiency
- Energy tax credits
- Excess profits tax
- Executive reorganization
- Federal advisory bodies
- Fines (Penalties)
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Gasoline
- Geothermal power plants
- Geothermal resources
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government trust funds
- Housing and Community Development
- Income tax
- Labeling
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Natural gas
- Personal income tax
- Presidential commissions
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Renewable natural resources
- Residential energy conservation
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- Solar energy
- Solar power plants
- Standards
- Tax refunds
- Taxation
- Tire industry
- Transportation and Public Works
- Trucks
- Wind power
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