HR 5360 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

American Renaissance in Manufacturing Act

Introduced Jul 31, 2014 Originated House Sponsor Mick Mulvaney R-SC

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Latest action · Sep 15, 2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.

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.

  1. IntroducedJul 31, 2014
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

American Renaissance in Manufacturing Act - Title I: Creating a More Competitive Tax Code - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce to 25% of taxable income the income tax rate for corporations (currently, the maximum rate is 35%). Makes permanent: (1) the reduction in the recognition period for the built-in gains of S corporations, (2) the basis adjustments to the stock of S corporations making charitable contributions of appreciated property, (3) the expensing allowance for depreciable business assets, (4) the research tax credit, and (5) the additional depreciation allowance (bonus depreciation) for business assets.

Title II: Reining In Job-Killing Washington Red Tape - States that the purpose of this title is to increase accountability for and transparency in the federal regulatory process by requiring Congress to approve all new major regulations.

Revises provisions relating to congressional review of agency rulemaking to require a federal agency promulgating a rule to include in its report to Congress and to the Comptroller General (GAO) a classification of the rule as a major or nonmajor rule. Sets forth a congressional approval procedure for major rules and a congressional disapproval procedure for nonmajor rules. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to provide that any rule subject to such congressional approval procedure affecting budget authority, outlays, or receipts shall be assumed to be effective unless it is not approved in accordance with such procedure.

Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), before promulgating as final an energy-related rule that is estimated to cost more than $1 billion, to report to Congress on the effects of such rule on the economy and on employment. Prohibits the Administrator from: (1) using the social cost of carbon in any cost-benefit analysis relating to such energy-related rule; and (2) issuing, implementing, or enforcing any proposed or final rule under the Clean Air Act that establishes a performance standard for greenhouse gas emissions from any new source that is a fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit unless the rule meets specified requirements.

Nullifies the force and effect of specified proposed rules (or similar successor proposed or final rules) for Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units.

Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize states to adopt and implement coal combustion residuals permit programs.

Title III: Reducing Frivolous Legal Costs - Amends the sanctions provisions in Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to require the court to impose an appropriate sanction on any attorney, law firm, or party that has violated, or is responsible for the violation of, the rule with regard to representations to the court. Requires any sanction to compensate parties injured by the conduct in question.

Repeals the provision that prohibits filing a motion for sanctions if the challenged paper, claim, defense, contention, or denial is withdrawn or appropriately corrected within 21 days after service or within another time the court sets.

Authorizes the court to impose additional sanctions, such as striking the pleadings, dismissing the suit, or other nonmonetary directives or ordering penalty payments if warranted for effective deterrence.

Amends federal bankruptcy law to require a quarterly report on asbestos claims.

Revises pleading and procedural requirements for patent infringement actions. Directs the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to notify the public on its website when a patent case is brought in federal court.

Codifies judicial doctrine relating to the consideration of prior art in cases of double patenting for the purpose of determining the nonobviousness of a second patent's claimed invention, thereby specifying that such doctrine continues to apply to the first-inventor-to-file patent system under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.

Amends the Federal Power Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to ensure that any emergency order issued under such Act for the interconnection of facilities for the generation, transmission, and sale of electric energy that may result in a conflict with a requirement of any environmental law: (1) requires generation, delivery, interchange, or transmission of electric energy only during hours necessary to meet the emergency and serve the public interest; and (2) to the maximum extent practical, is consistent with any other applicable environmental law and minimizes any adverse environmental impacts.

Title IV: Preserving Access to Abundant and Affordable Sources of Energy - Expedites the permit approval process for the Keystone Pipeline by eliminating the requirement for a presidential permit and other requirements.

Amends the Natural Gas Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to approve or deny a certificate of public convenience and necessity within 12 months after providing public notice of the permit application for a natural gas pipeline project.

Prohibits any person from constructing, connecting, operating, or maintaining a cross-border segment of an oil or natural gas pipeline or electric transmission facility at the national boundary of the United States for the import or export of oil, natural gas, or electricity to or from Canada or Mexico without obtaining a certificate of crossing under this Act.

Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to prohibit the Department of the Interior from enforcing any federal regulation, guidance, or permit requirement regarding hydraulic fracturing (including any component of that process), relating to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on or under any land in any state that has regulations, guidance, or permit requirements for that activity.

Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to implement a leasing program that includes at least 50% of the available unleased acreage within each Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) planning area considered to have the largest undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources, with an emphasis on offering the most geologically prospective parts of the planning area.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct specified oil and gas lease sales on the Outer Continental Shelf off the coasts of Virginia and South Carolina and to offer for sale leases of tracts in the Southern California area.

Allocates 37.5% of the amount of new federal leasing revenues to coastal states that are: (1) impacted by the leases under which those revenues are received by the United States, and (2) within 200 miles of the leased tract.

Establishes in the Department of the Interior: (1) an Under Secretary for Energy, Lands, and Minerals; (2) an Assistant Secretary of Ocean Energy and Safety; (3) an Assistant Secretary of Land and Minerals Management; (4) a Bureau of Ocean Energy; (5) an Ocean Energy Safety Service; and (6) an Office of Natural Resources Revenue.

Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a National Offshore Energy Safety Academy to train oil and gas inspectors and other Department of Interior personnel; and (2) an Outer Continental Shelf Energy Safety Advisory Board to provide advice on mineral and renewable energy exploration, development, and production activities.

Abolishes the Minerals Management Service.

Prohibits the Bureau of Ocean Energy and the Ocean Energy Safety Service from developing, proposing, finalizing, administering, or implementing any limitation on activities under their jurisdictions as a result of the coastal and marine spatial planning component of the National Ocean Policy developed under Executive Order No. 13547.

Redefines the OCS to include all submerged lands lying within the U.S. exclusive economic zone and the Continental Shelf adjacent to any U.S. territory.

Sets forth requirements for filing complaints for judicial review of federal actions relating to energy leases.

Cosponsors 19

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 31, 2014 to Sep 15, 2014; 15 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-MIBill HuizengaOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-TNDavid P. RoeOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-AZDavid SchweikertOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-CADoug LaMalfaOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-CODoug LambornOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-AREric A. "Rick" CrawfordOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-TXJeb HensarlingOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-OHJim JordanOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-TNJohn J. Duncan, Jr.OriginalJul 31, 2014
R-ALMo BrooksOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-ILRandy HultgrenOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-FLRon DeSantisOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-OHSteve ChabotOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-CATom McClintockOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-GATom PriceOriginalJul 31, 2014
R-KYAndy BarrSep 8, 2014
R-NCRichard HudsonSep 8, 2014
R-TNStephen Lee FincherSep 8, 2014
R-FLCurt ClawsonSep 15, 2014

Committees 8

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseEnergy and Commerce Committee
Referred Jul 31, 2014
Energy Subcommittee
Referred Aug 1, 2014
HouseWays and Means Committee
Referred Jul 31, 2014
HouseBudget Committee
Referred Jul 31, 2014
HouseJudiciary Committee
Referred Jul 31, 2014
HouseRules Committee
Referred Jul 31, 2014
HouseNatural Resources Committee
Referred Jul 31, 2014
Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee
Referred Sep 15, 2014
Federal Lands Subcommittee
Referred Sep 15, 2014
HouseTransportation and Infrastructure Committee
Referred Jul 31, 2014
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee
Referred Aug 1, 2014
Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee
Referred Aug 1, 2014
Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee
Referred Aug 1, 2014
HouseScience, Space, and Technology Committee
Referred Jul 31, 2014
Environment Subcommittee
Referred Sep 12, 2014

Actions 9

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Sep 15, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
  2. Sep 15, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
  3. Sep 12, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
  4. Aug 1, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
  5. Aug 1, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
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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.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. ``The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.'' Article I, Section 8, Clause 3. ``To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.'' Article I Section 8, Clause 4. ``To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States.'' Article I, Section 8, Clause 8. ``To Promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.'' Article I, Section 8, Clause 9. ``To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.'' Article I, Section 8, Clause 14. ``To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces.'' Article I, Section 8, Clause 18. ``To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof'' Article III, Section 1, Clause 1. ``The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.'' Article III, Section 2. ``The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;--to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;--to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;--to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;--to controversies between two or more states;--between a state and citizens of another state;-- between citizens of different states;--between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.'' Article IV, Section 3. ``The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state.''

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H7187.

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HR 367Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2013Related billSep 9, 2013
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Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced
To enhance the competitiveness of American manufacturers and exports in the global marketplace by providing tax relief, regulatory relief, liability relief, and ensuring access to abundant and affordable supplies of energy, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced
American Renaissance in Manufacturing Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.

Text 1

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  1. Jul 31, 2014Introduced in House

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