Future Fuels Act
Latest action · May 15, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
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.
- IntroducedMay 14, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Future Fuels Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an investment credit to 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.
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out: (1) evaluation projects to determine how technology can best be applied to assess mileage-based road user charges on major highways at peak-commuting times; and (2) a national evaluation pilot project to assess how offering commuters the option to receive the cash value of their workplace parking place, if any, instead of free parking can reduce oil usage, lessen highway congestion, and expand travel alternatives.
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 at least 20 transit-oriented development corridors in urbanized areas by 2015, and 50 by 2025; (3) award transit grants to construct or improve transit facilities, bicycle transportation facilities, and pedestrian walkways in such corridors, including capital projects; and (4) establish a transit-oriented development corridors research and development program for best practices and performance criteria.
Directs the Secretary to develop a national tire fuel efficiency program for tires designed for use on passenger cars and light trucks.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 14, 2007 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred May 14, 2007 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred May 14, 2007 |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred May 14, 2007 |
| Highways and Transit Subcommittee | Referred May 15, 2007 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 15, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- May 14, 2007Introduced in House
- May 14, 2007Referred 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.
- May 14, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To reduce the Nation's oil dependence and enhance the Nation's ability to produce alternative fuels.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Future Fuels Act
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)
- 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.
- May 14, 2007Introduced in House
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