Incentivizing Renewable Energy Production Act of 2008
Latest action · Jul 17, 2008 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.
- IntroducedJul 17, 2008
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Incentivizing Renewable Energy Production Act of 2008 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to allow loan guarantees for closed-loop ethanol plants.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax credit for the production of livestock-derived renewable energy; (2) allow an increased tax credit for research expenses relating to any clean-burning fuel and closed-loop system (including any anaerobic digester); (3) allow a tax credit for the production of biomaterials from certain renewable resources; and (4) increase the tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property expenditures.
Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to: (1) require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to support development in biofuel technologies; and (2) authorize appropriations through FY2019 for the grant program for the production of advanced biofuels.
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to make publicly available at least 100 hydrogen fueling pumps at retail gas stations by 2014 in specified regions of the United States.
Authorizes appropriations for the purchase of fuel cell vehicles by the federal government in FY2012-FY2014.
Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to require committee reports to include a domestic energy impact statement prepared by the Comptroller General.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Jul 17, 2008 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred Jul 17, 2008 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jul 17, 2008 |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jul 17, 2008 |
| House | Rules Committee | Referred Jul 17, 2008 |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jul 17, 2008 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred Jul 17, 2008 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 17, 2008Introduced in House
- Jul 17, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
- Jul 17, 2008Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Rules, Energy and Commerce, and Science and Technology, 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.
- Jul 17, 2008Referred 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 provide incentives for the reduction of green house gases.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Incentivizing Renewable Energy Production Act of 2008
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Agricultural wastes
- Agriculture and Food
- Air pollution control
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alternative energy sources
- Animals
- Authorization
- Biomass energy
- Cellulose
- Coal
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Energy
- Energy research
- Environmental Protection
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Fuel cells
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government vehicles
- Income tax
- Legislation
- Legislative resolutions
- Liquefied natural gas
- Livestock
- Methane
- Natural gas
- Natural gas vehicles
- Petroleum
- Prospecting
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Refuse as fuel
- Research and development tax credit
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Service stations
- Tax credits
- Taxation
- Technological innovations
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 17, 2008Introduced in House
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