Fuel Economy and Security Act of 2002
Latest action · Feb 7, 2002 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S494-497)
Progress
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- IntroducedFeb 7, 2002
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Deletes a provision allowing credits for exceeding such standards to be applied in any of the three model years before the model year in which the credits are earned. Allows any such credits to be transferred to a registry established under this Act. Allows a manufacturer to apply greenhouse gas credits toward any model year after 2006, with a limitation.
Eliminates the: (1) requirement for separate calculations of average fuel economy for vehicles manufactured domestically and non-domestically; and (2) credit for dual-fueled (gasoline and alternative) vehicles.
Provides a high-occupancy vehicle exception if the vehicle is a hybrid or uses only an alternative fuel.
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a national voluntary registry system for industry greenhouse gas trading under which emission reductions are assigned unique identifiers.
Directs the Secretary to prescribe a motor vehicle safety standard for rollover crashworthiness that includes: (1) dynamic roof crush standards; (2) improved seat structure and safety belt design; (3) side impact head protection airbags; and (4) roof injury protection measures.
Requires the Secretary to establish test criteria for use by manufacturers in determining damage susceptibility, crashworthiness, and the overall safety of vehicles for drivers and passengers. Requires such information to be included within safety label requirements under the Automobile Information Disclosure Act with respect to vehicles manufactured after September 30, 2005.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 7, 2002Introduced in Senate
- Feb 7, 2002Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S494-497)
- Feb 7, 2002Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S494)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Agriculture and Food
- Air bag restraint systems
- Air pollution control
- Air pollution measurement
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alternative energy sources
- Alternative fuels
- Automobile fuel consumption
- Automobile industry
- Automobile safety standards
- Business records
- Car pools
- Carbon cycle
- Carbon dioxide
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Commerce
- Commercial arbitration
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Data banks
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Transportation
- Electric power production
- Electric vehicles
- Emissions trading
- Energy
- Energy efficiency
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental technology
- Executive reorganization
- Fluorocarbons
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Forest conservation
- Global climate change
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Hydrogen as fuel
- Identification devices
- Imports
- Industrial pollution
- International Affairs
- International environmental cooperation
- Labeling
- Law
- Liquefied natural gas
- Liquefied petroleum gas
- Methane
- Methanol
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Motor vehicle safety
- Natural gas vehicles
- Nitrous oxide
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Reforestation
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Seat belts
- Soil conservation
- Standards
- Sulphur
- Transportation and Public Works
- Treaties
- Trucks
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