Future Fuels Act
Latest action · Jan 3, 2006 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.
- IntroducedDec 18, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Future Fuels Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth an investment credit for eligible manufacturers for an advanced technology motor vehicle.
Amends federal transportation law to revise the fuel economy calculations for manufacturing incentives for dual fueled and gaseous fuel dedicated automobiles.
Sets forth a calendar schedule for an increased percentage of alternative fueled automobiles or flexible fuel vehicles.
Instructs the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to: (1) establish an incentives program for insurance providers to sell automobile insurance policies on a per-mile basis; (2) designate, in urbanized areas, at least 20 transit-oriented development corridors by 2015, and 50 transit-oriented development corridors by 2025; (3) award transit grants to construct or improve transit facilities, bicycle transportation facilities, and pedestrian walkways in transit-oriented development corridors, including capital projects; and (4) establish a transit-oriented development corridors research and development program for best practices and performance criteria for transit-oriented development corridors.
Directs the Secretary to develop and carry out a national tire fuel efficiency program for tires designed for use on passenger cars and light trucks.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jun 12, 2006.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-PA | Charles W. Dent | Jun 12, 2006 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 3, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
- Dec 19, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
- Dec 18, 2005Introduced in House
- Dec 18, 2005Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: Transportation and Public Works.
- Administrative procedure
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alternative energy sources
- Automobile industry
- Automobile insurance
- Automobile tires
- Bikeways
- Commerce
- Commuting
- Compensation (Law)
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Construction industries
- Construction workers
- Consumer education
- Department of Energy
- Department of Transportation
- Diesel motor
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electric vehicles
- Energy conservation
- Energy efficiency
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental technology
- Federal aid to research
- Federal aid to transportation
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fuel consumption
- Government contractors
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publications
- Government publicity
- Income tax
- Insurance companies
- Insurance premiums
- Labeling
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Mass rapid transit
- Metropolitan areas
- Minimum wages
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Natural gas vehicles
- Nitrogen oxides
- Parking facilities
- Pedestrians
- Research and development
- Research grants
- Right-of-way
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Service stations
- Smog
- Standards
- Subcontractors
- Tax credits
- Taxation
- Technological innovations
- Traffic congestion
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation engineering
- Transportation planning
- Transportation research
- Urban affairs
- Urban transportation
- User charges
- Wages
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 18, 2005Introduced in House
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