Fuel Fraud Prevention Act of 2003
Latest action · Nov 25, 2003 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 25, 2003
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Fuel Fraud Prevention Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code concerning collecting taxes on and providing for the accountability of fuel, including: (1) providing for the taxation of aviation fuel upon its removal from any refinery or terminal, entry into the United States, and upon its sale; (2) establishing penalties for tampering with a mechanical dye injection system used to indelibly dye fuel and operators of such systems failing to maintain security standards to be established; (3) making fuel tax records available to Federal Department of Transportation; (4) granting the Secretary of the Treasury authority to inspect any books and records and shipping papers pertaining to fuel at any production or storage site; (5) expanding registration and reporting requirements with respect to those handling fuel; (6) taxing unregistered importers at point of entry; and (7) dedicating certain penalties to the Highway Trust Fund.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 25, 2003 to Dec 9, 2003, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MT | Max Baucus | Original | Nov 25, 2003 |
| R-WY | Craig Thomas | Dec 9, 2003 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 25, 2003Introduced in Senate
- Nov 25, 2003Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Nov 25, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S16030)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Automobile theft
- Aviation fuels
- Business records
- Commerce
- Commercial aircraft
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of the Treasury
- Diesel motor
- Dyes and dyeing
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic data interchange
- Electronic government information
- Energy
- Energy transportation
- Environmental Protection
- Excise tax
- Federal aid to transportation
- Fines (Penalties)
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fraud
- Free ports and zones
- Freight
- Gasoline
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government trust funds
- Highway finance
- Identification devices
- Imports
- Petroleum pipelines
- Petroleum refineries
- Petroleum storage
- Pollution taxes
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Searches and seizures
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)
- Ships
- Tankers
- Tax administration
- Tax evasion
- Tax penalties
- Tax rates
- Tax refunds
- Taxation
- Transportation and Public Works
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.