HR 1175 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act of 2015

Introduced Feb 27, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Doris O. Matsui D-CA

Fact sheet Spreadsheet

Latest action · Mar 20, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.

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. IntroducedFeb 27, 2015
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act of 2015

This bill requires the Department of Commerce to: (1) establish a Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Fund to ensure that U.S. clean energy technology firms have the information and assistance they need to be competitive and to create clean energy technology sector jobs; and (2) administer the Fund to promote policies that will reduce production costs and encourage innovation, investment, and productivity in the clean energy technology sector, and implement a national clean energy technology export strategy. The Fund must be administered through the International Trade Administration.

Clean energy technology includes technology related to the production, use, transmission, storage, control, or conservation of energy that will contribute to a stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations through reduction, avoidance, or sequestration of energy-related emissions and that will: (1) reduce the need for additional energy supplies by using existing supplies with greater efficiency or by transmitting, distributing, or transporting energy with greater effectiveness through U.S. infrastructure; or (2) diversify the sources of the energy supply to strengthen energy security and to increase supplies with a favorable balance of environmental effects if the entire technology system is considered.

Commerce must provide information, tools, and other assistance to U.S. businesses to promote clean energy technology manufacturing and facilitate the export of clean energy technology products and services. This assistance must be consistent with the National Export Initiative.

Cosponsors 16

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 27, 2015 to Sep 9, 2015; 12 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-ILBobby L. RushOriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-CTElizabeth H. EstyOriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-VAGerald E. ConnollyOriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-CAJared HuffmanOriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-MIJohn Conyers, Jr.OriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-CAJohn GaramendiOriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-CAJuan VargasOriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-NYLouise McIntosh SlaughterOriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-PAMatt CartwrightOriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-CAMichael M. HondaOriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-NYPaul TonkoOriginalFeb 27, 2015
D-CAAnna G. EshooMay 19, 2015
D-ILDaniel LipinskiMay 19, 2015
D-IADavid LoebsackMay 19, 2015
D-HIMark TakaiSep 9, 2015

Committees 2

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

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseForeign Affairs Committee
Referred Feb 27, 2015
Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee
Referred Mar 20, 2015
HouseEnergy and Commerce Committee
Referred Feb 27, 2015
Energy Subcommittee
Referred Mar 6, 2015

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 20, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
  2. Mar 6, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
  3. Feb 27, 2015Introduced in House
  4. Feb 27, 2015Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.

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 of the Constitution of the United States grants Congress the authority to enact this bill.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 34, February 27, 2015, page H1501.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 1263Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act of 2015Related billJun 9, 2015

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced
To provide for the establishment of a Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Fund to assist United States businesses with exporting clean energy technology products and services.
Short Titles as Introduced
Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act of 2015

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Feb 27, 2015Introduced in House

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