To increase the renewable fuel content of gasoline sold in the United States by the year 2025 to 25 billion gallons, to require Federal agencies to use ethanol and biodiesel in government vehicles, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Mar 9, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Progress
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- IntroducedDec 16, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Clean Air Act to extend to 2025 certain requirements increasing the applicable volume of renewable fuel in gasoline.
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to require the head of each federal agency to ensure that, in areas in which ethanol-blended gasoline is reasonably available at a generally competitive price, the agency purchases such gasoline with at least 10% ethanol, rather than nonethanol-blended gasoline, for its vehicles that use gasoline.
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to: (1) authorize appropriations for FY2007-FY2015 to the Department of Agriculture bioenergy program; and (2) direct the Secretary of Agriculture to give priority to production of both cellulosic ethanol, and hydrogen using ethanol technology.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make ethanol and biodiesel refining property eligible for 7-year depreciation.
Creates a new flexible fuel hybrid motor vehicle income tax credit.
Extends: (1) the alternative technology vehicle credit through calendar 2014; (2) the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit through calendar 2024; (3) the volumetric excise tax credit for alternative fuels and the alternative fuel mixture credit through FY2014; and (6) the biodiesel producer credit and the small ethanol producer credit through calendar 2024.
Cosponsors 11
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 8, 2006 to Jun 7, 2006.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Jerry F. Costello | Feb 8, 2006 | |
| D-IL | Lane Evans | Feb 8, 2006 | |
| R-KY | Ron Lewis | Feb 16, 2006 | |
| R-MO | Sam Graves | Feb 16, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Mar 14, 2006 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Mar 14, 2006 | |
| R-NE | Lee Terry | Mar 14, 2006 | |
| R-PR | Luis G. Fortuno | Mar 14, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Mar 14, 2006 | |
| R-NY | John M. McHugh | May 23, 2006 | |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Jun 7, 2006 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 9, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Jan 3, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
- Dec 17, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2586-2587)
- Dec 16, 2005Introduced in House
- Dec 16, 2005Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Ways and Means, and Government Reform, 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.
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agricultural wastes
- Agriculture and Food
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alternative energy sources
- Cellulose
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost effectiveness
- Depreciation and amortization
- Diesel motor
- Electric vehicles
- Emissions trading
- Energy
- Energy crops
- Energy facilities
- Energy industries
- Environmental Protection
- Excise tax
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fuel cells
- Fuel consumption
- Gasoline
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government procurement
- Government vehicles
- Governmental investigations
- Hydrogen
- Income tax
- Law
- Licenses
- Minimum tax
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Natural gas vehicles
- Oils and fats
- Petroleum pipelines
- Petroleum refineries
- Reformulated gasoline
- Refuse as fuel
- Service stations
- Small business
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Taxation
- Transportation and Public Works
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