Energy Consumer Relief Act of 2005
Latest action · Mar 27, 2006 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.
- IntroducedDec 8, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Energy Consumer Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal oil and gas tax subsidies including: (1) the election to expense certain refineries; (2) treatment of natural gas distribution lines as 15-year property; (3) treatment of natural gas gathering lines as 7-year property; (4) the new rule for determining small refiner exception to oil depletion deduction; and (5) amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures.
Repeals certain oil and gas production incentives, including those with respect to: (1) royalty relief for deep water production; (2) the Alaska offshore royalty suspension; (3) oil and gas leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska; (4) management of federal oil and gas leasing programs; (5) oil and gas research programs); and (6) ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resources.
Instructs the President to suspend royalty relief for production of crude oil or natural gas from federal lands during periods in which the average price has risen over specified amounts.
Requires that specified increased revenues received in the Treasury as the result of the enactment of this Act be made directly available to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for obligation and expenditure under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a refundable tax credit for energy cost assistance for farmers and ranchers.
Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish an Energy Emergency Grant Program to make grants to small business concerns that have suffered substantial economic injury as a result of a significant increase in the price of heating oil, natural gas, gasoline, transportation fuel, propane, or kerosene.
Cosponsors 70
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 8, 2005 to Jul 19, 2006; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | Dec 8, 2005 |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Original | Dec 8, 2005 |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Original | Dec 8, 2005 |
| D-NY | Steve Israel | Original | Dec 8, 2005 |
| D-NY | Timothy H. Bishop | Original | Dec 8, 2005 |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Dec 13, 2005 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Dec 13, 2005 | |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Dec 13, 2005 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Dec 13, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Dec 13, 2005 | |
| D-ME | Michael H. Michaud | Dec 13, 2005 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Dec 13, 2005 | |
| D-PA | Allyson Y. Schwartz | Dec 15, 2005 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Dec 15, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Dec 15, 2005 |
Committees 6
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Dec 8, 2005 |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Dec 8, 2005 |
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Dec 8, 2005 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred Dec 16, 2005 | |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Dec 8, 2005 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred Jan 3, 2006 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Dec 8, 2005 |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Mar 27, 2006 | |
| House | Small Business Committee | Referred Dec 8, 2005 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 27, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Jan 3, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
- Dec 16, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
- Dec 8, 2005Introduced in House
- Dec 8, 2005Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Science, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, and Small Business, 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.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To repeal provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Energy Consumer Relief Act of 2005
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Agriculture and Food
- Alaska
- Commerce
- Depreciation and amortization
- Energy
- Energy assistance for the poor
- Energy prices
- Energy research
- Farmers
- Gas in submerged lands
- Gas industry
- Gas pipelines
- Gasoline
- Gulf of Mexico
- Income tax
- Natural gas
- Oil and gas leases
- Oil and gas royalties
- Petroleum
- Petroleum in submerged lands
- Petroleum industry
- Petroleum refineries
- Propane
- Prospecting
- Secondary recovery of gas
- Secondary recovery of oil
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- Submarine oil well drilling
- Subsidies
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Tax refunds
- Taxation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 8, 2005Introduced in House
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