To authorize United States participation in, and appropriations for the United States contribution to, an international clean technology fund, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Jun 19, 2008 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
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.
- IntroducedJun 19, 2008
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to contribute to a Fund to promote accelerated deployment in developing countries of technologies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Requires that such Fund be established and administered by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).
Amends the the International Financial Institutions Act to direct the Secretary to seek to ensure that each multilateral development bank adopts and implements greenhouse gas accounting in analyzing the benefits and costs of all projects for which bank funding is sought.
Cosponsors 4
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 19, 2008 to Jun 23, 2008, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Original | Jun 19, 2008 |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Original | Jun 19, 2008 |
| D-NY | Steve Israel | Original | Jun 19, 2008 |
| R-IL | Mark Kirk | Jun 23, 2008 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 19, 2008Introduced in House
- Jun 19, 2008Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Air pollution control
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Cost effectiveness
- Developing countries
- Development credit institutions
- Economic assistance
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental technology
- Foreign loans
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- International Affairs
- Science, Technology, Communications
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 19, 2008Introduced in House
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.