Removing Barriers to Energy Independence Act
Latest action · Nov 2, 2018 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 786.
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.
- IntroducedJun 13, 2018
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Removing Barriers to Energy Independence Act
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to assess an administrative fee to recover the cost of processing protests filed on oil and gas lease sales, application for permits to drill, and right-of-way applications for oil and gas operations on federal land.
Cosponsors 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 13, 2018 to Jun 28, 2018; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MT | Greg Gianforte | Original | Jun 13, 2018 |
| R-TX | Louie Gohmert | Original | Jun 13, 2018 |
| R-AZ | Paul A. Gosar | Original | Jun 13, 2018 |
| R-UT | Rob Bishop | Original | Jun 13, 2018 |
| R-PR | Jenniffer González-Colón | Jun 28, 2018 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jun 13, 2018Markup Jun 27, 2018Reported Nov 2, 2018 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 2, 2018Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-1005.
- Nov 2, 2018Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 786.
- Jun 27, 2018Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jun 27, 2018Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 13.
- Jun 13, 2018Introduced in House
- Jun 13, 2018Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Aug 10, 2018H.R. 6087, Removing Barriers to Energy Independence ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on June 27, 2018
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 164, no. 98, June 13, 2018, page H5153.
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to recover the cost of processing administrative protests for oil and gas lease sales, applications for permits to drill, and right of way applications, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Removing Barriers to Energy Independence Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Removing Barriers to Energy Independence Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 2, 2018Reported in House
- Jun 13, 2018Introduced 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.
