DRIVE Act
Latest action · Feb 2, 2007 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.
- IntroducedJan 24, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Dependence Reduction through Innovation in Vehicles and Energy Act or DRIVE Act - Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to publish in the Federal Register an oil savings target and action plan for specified calendar years. Directs the Secretary of Energy to conduct a national media campaign to decrease oil consumption in the United States over the next decade.
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to develop: (1) a fuel efficiency program for passenger car and light truck tires; (2) a program to designate Transit-Oriented Development Corridors; and (3) pilot projects to save oil by reducing vehicle miles traveled.
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) develop a testing and assessment program to determine the fuel economy of heavy duty vehicles; (2) establish a near-term electric transportation deployment program; and (3) implement a fuel and technology neutral program to reduce tailpipe emissions. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe average heavy duty vehicle fuel economy standards.
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to direct the Secretary of Energy to make loan guarantees for eligible projects to improve hybrid technologies or to encourage production of efficient hybrid and advanced diesel vehicles.
Requires a specified graduated percentage of passenger cars manufactured by light-duty motor vehicles manufacturers to be fuel choice enabling motor vehicles or alternative fuel automobiles.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an advanced technology motor vehicles manufacturing tax credit; (2) allow a flexible fuel vehicle tax credit; (3) extend the alternative vehicle tax credit for new qualified hybrid motor vehicles; (4) allow a fuel-efficient tax credit for private fleets; (5) subject heavy vehicles to the depreciation limitation for certain luxury automobiles; (6) increase the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property tax credit; (7) provide a graduated tax credit for plug-in hybrid electric passenger and light truck vehicles; and (8) allow an idling reduction tax credit for heavy-duty diesel-powered on-highway vehicles.
Establishes the Alternative Fueling Infrastructure Trust Fund. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to obligate sums from the Fund for the Clean Cities grant program to increase the availability to consumers of ethanol, biodiesel, and other alternative fuels.
Amends the Clean Air Act to prescribe minimum annual quantities of renewable fuel from cellulosic biomass.
Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) require at least a 20% reduction in the federal fleets' petroleum consumption (including that at least 30% of federal vehicles required to be alternative fuel vehicles be flexible fuel hybrid or flexible fuel plug-in hybrid vehicles); (2) submit to Congress an action plan calling for a specified graduated percentage of the nation's ground fuel demand to be supplied by fuels derived from sources other than oil; and (3) carry out a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle prize program.
Cosponsors 83
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 24, 2007 to Jun 10, 2008; 67 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-MD | Albert Russell Wynn | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-PA | Allyson Y. Schwartz | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-NY | Anthony D. Weiner | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| R-SC | Bob Inglis | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| R-IN | Dan Burton | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-IL | Daniel Lipinski | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-GA | David Scott | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-KS | Dennis Moore | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
Committees 5
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 Jan 24, 2007 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred Feb 2, 2007 | |
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Jan 24, 2007 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred Jan 31, 2007 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jan 24, 2007 |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Jan 24, 2007 |
| Highways and Transit Subcommittee | Referred Jan 25, 2007 | |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jan 24, 2007 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 2, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
- Jan 31, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
- Jan 25, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- Jan 24, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 24, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E193)
In the Congressional Record 12
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H6084 | Jack Kingston R-GA | Jun 25, 2008 |
| House | Debate and remarks H5792 | Roscoe G. Bartlett R-MD | Jun 20, 2008 |
| House | Debate and remarks H3330 | Roscoe G. Bartlett R-MD | May 8, 2008 |
| House | Debate and remarks H3008 | Roscoe G. Bartlett R-MD | May 1, 2008 |
| House | Debate and remarks H13389 | Jack Kingston R-GA | Nov 8, 2007 |
| House | Debate and remarks H12135 | Jack Kingston R-GA | Oct 29, 2007 |
| House | Debate and remarks H6666 | Jack Kingston R-GA | Jun 19, 2007 |
| House | Debate and remarks H6574 | Roscoe G. Bartlett R-MD | Jun 15, 2007 |
| House | Debate and remarks H4279 | Roscoe G. Bartlett R-MD | May 1, 2007 |
| House | Debate and remarks H3057 | Jack Kingston R-GA | Mar 26, 2007 |
| House | Debate and remarks H1453 | Jack Kingston R-GA | Feb 12, 2007 |
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E193 | Eliot L. Engel D-NY | Jan 24, 2007 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 4
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 110-86 | DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S FISCAL YEAR 2009 BUDGET PROPOSAL296 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Feb 7, 2008 |
| Serial No. 110-61 | ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES: STATE OF DEVELOPMENT FOR STATIONARY AND VEHICULAR APPLICATIONS88 pages | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Oct 3, 2007 |
| Serial No. 110-32 | MEMBER PROPOSALS ON ENERGY TAX INCENTIVES79 pages | Ways and Means Committee | Apr 24, 2007 |
| Serial No. 110-3 | THE FISCAL YEAR 2008 BUDGET REQUEST FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY78 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Feb 8, 2007 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 339 | DRIVE Act | Related bill | Jan 18, 2007 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To promote the national security and stability of the United States economy by reducing the dependence of the United States on foreign oil through the use of alternative fuels and new vehicle technologies, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- DRIVE Act
- Dependence Reduction through Innovation in Vehicles and Energy Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Administrative fees
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural machinery
- Agriculture and Food
- Airports
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alternative energy sources
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Authorization
- Automobile engines
- Automobile industry
- Automobile tires
- Automobiles
- Awards, medals, prizes
- Biomass energy
- Cellulose
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Commemorations
- Commerce
- Commercialization
- Commuting
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Construction industries
- Construction workers
- Consumer education
- Corporation taxes
- Cost effectiveness
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Defense
- Department of Energy
- Department of Transportation
- Depreciation and amortization
- Diesel motor
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electric batteries
- Electric utilities
- Electric vehicles
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee benefit plans
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy consumption
- Energy demand
- Energy efficiency
- Energy research
- Energy supplies
- Engineers
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal aid to air pollution control
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to research
- Federal aid to transportation
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Fees
- Fines (Penalties)
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fuel cells
- Fuel consumption
- Government contractors
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Government vehicles
- Higher education
- Highway use tax
- Hydrogen
- Imports
- Income tax
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Investment tax credit
- Job creation
- Labeling
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Lease and rental services
- Legislation
- Magnetic levitation vehicles
- Marine terminals
- Mass rapid transit
- Materials
- Methane
- Methanol
- Metropolitan areas
- Military vehicles
- Minimum wages
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Motor vehicle registration
- Municipal solid waste
- Nanotechnology
- Natural gas
- Natural gas vehicles
- Paper and paper products
- Parking facilities
- Petroleum
- Planning
- Propane
- Public service advertising
- Public-private partnerships
- Quality of products
- Railroad freight operations
- Refuse as fuel
- Research and development
- Research grants
- Revolving funds
- Right-of-way
- School buses
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Service stations
- Small business
- Standards
- Tariff
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Taxation
- Teaching materials
- Technological innovations
- Technology assessment
- Traffic congestion
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation engineering
- Transportation research
- Trucks
- Urban affairs
- Wages
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 24, 2007Introduced 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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
