Energy Independence Act of 2004
Latest action · Dec 1, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
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 19, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Energy Independence Act of 2004 - Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to require the National Energy Policy Plan to include a strategic plan for U.S. energy self-sufficiency by the year 2015 which: (1) examines and reports on existing energy technology and domestic resources as well as developing energy generation and transmission technologies, focusing on the integration of fuel cell technology into an overall national energy portfolio to achieve energy self-sufficiency within ten years; and (2) recommend to Congress targeted research and development in promising new energy generation and transmission technologies, and funding levels to implement a plan for achieving such self-sufficiency.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 1, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
- Nov 19, 2004Introduced in House
- Nov 19, 2004Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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.
- Nov 19, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 11/20/2004 E2113)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 19, 2004Introduced in House
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