DRIVE Act
Latest action · Jan 18, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 18, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Dependence Reduction through Innovation in Vehicles and Energy Act or DRIVE Act - Instructs 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 Transportation to develop: (1) a fuel efficiency consumer education program for motor vehicle tires; (2) a fuel efficiency program for passenger automobile and light truck tires; and (3) a program to designate Transit-Oriented Development Corridors.
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) develop a testing and assessment program to determine heavy duty vehicle fuel economy; (2) establish a task force to develop minimum certification standards for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; and (3) establish a near-term electric transportation deployment program.
Instructs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe average heavy duty vehicle fuel economy standards.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax credit for 50% of the cost and installation (up to $3,500) of a qualifying idling reduction device (includes off-truck infrastructure equipment) on a heavy-duty diesel-powered on-highway vehicle; (2) allow a credit for 35% of the advanced motor vehicle technology expenses of certain motor vehicle manufacturers or component parts manufacturers; (3) terminate the limitation on the number of new qualified hybrid and advanced lean burn vehicles eligible for the alternative motor vehicle credit; (4) extend the alternative motor vehicle credit; (5) establish a fuel-efficient tax credit for private fleets; (6) subject heavy vehicles to the depreciation limitation for certain luxury automobiles; (7) increase the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit; (8) extend biodiesel income and excise tax credits; (9) increase the small ethanol producer tax credit for sucrose and cellulosic ethanol producers; and (10) provide plug-in electric vehicle incentives.
Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish a lightweight material research and development program; (2) carry out a research and commercial application program for electric drive transportation technology and engine dominant hybrid vehicle technology; (3) provide hybrid technology loan guarantees; and (4) require that by FY2016 each federal agency achieve at least a 30% reduction in its fleet petroleum consumption, and have at least 30% of its alternative fuel vehicles be hybrid or lean burn vehicles; (5) establish an alternative fuels pilot grant program; and (6) conduct a national media campaign to decrease U.S. oil consumption over the next decade.
Sets forth a federal agency motor vehicle efficiency and fuel requirements.
Requires certain minimum percentages of light-duty motor vehicles manufactured for model years 2012 and beyond to use specified propulsion technologies and fuels.
Amends the Clean Air Act to prescribe minimum annual quantities of renewable fuel from cellulosic biomass and sugar.Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a low-interest loan and grant program for farmer-owned ethanol producers to develop infrastructure, including pump stations, for the retail delivery of any fuel containing at least 85% ethanol.
Cosponsors 26
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 18, 2007 to Jun 11, 2007, with 24 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Barack Obama | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-FL | Bill Nelson | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-AR | Blanche L. Lincoln | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Akaka | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-WI | Herb Kohl | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| R-AL | Jeff Sessions | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-MT | Jon Tester | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-CT | Joseph I. Lieberman | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
| D-CO | Ken Salazar | Original | Jan 18, 2007 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 18, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Jan 18, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 670 | DRIVE Act | Related bill | Feb 2, 2007 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural machinery
- Agriculture and Food
- Air conditioning
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alloys
- Alternative energy sources
- Automobile engines
- Automobile industry
- Automobile parts
- Automobile tires
- Automobiles
- Awards, medals, prizes
- Biomass energy
- Cellulose
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Commemorations
- Commerce
- Commercialization
- Compressed natural gas
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Defense
- Department of Energy
- Department of the Treasury
- Department of Transportation
- Depreciation and amortization
- Diesel motor
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electric batteries
- Electric utilities
- Electric vehicles
- Electrical engineering
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emblems
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy consumption
- Energy efficiency
- Energy research
- Energy security
- Engineering
- Engineers
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Excise tax
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to transportation
- Federal preemption
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fuel cells
- Fuel consumption
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Government vehicles
- Grants-in-aid
- Heating
- High technology
- Higher education
- Hydrogen
- Income tax
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- Infrastructure
- Investment tax credit
- Law
- Light rail transit
- Liquefied natural gas
- Liquefied petroleum gas
- Local laws
- Mass rapid transit
- Materials
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Nanotechnology
- Natural gas vehicles
- Petroleum
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public service advertising
- Public-private partnerships
- Research and development
- Revolving funds
- School buses
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific education
- Service stations
- Small business
- Standards
- State laws
- Sugar
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Taxation
- Teaching materials
- Technological innovations
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation research
- Trucks
- Urban affairs
- Urban economic development
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 18, 2007Introduced in Senate
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