Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2019
Latest action · Mar 29, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
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.
- IntroducedMar 28, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to establish a carbon trading program that caps the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from crude oil, coal, and natural gas. Beginning in 2019, crude oil refineries, petroleum importers, coal mines, coal importers, and natural gas suppliers or processors must purchase carbon permits equivalent to the amount of CO2 that would be emitted by covered fuels.
This bill establishes a declining cap on the quantity of permits issued to reduce CO2 emissions until 2040 when the permits issued represent an amount 80% below 2005 CO2 emission levels.
This bill provides for the trading or sale of permits between entities, the banking by entities of permits for future years, and the borrowing by Treasury of permits from future years to stabilize permit prices.
Auction proceeds and penalties are returned to U.S. citizens lawfully present in the United States using the Healthy Climate Trust Fund established by this bill.
Treasury must impose fees on the import and pay fees for the export of carbon-intensive goods when the export country does not have equivalent measures to regulate greenhouse gases. Carbon-intensive goods are goods with an increased cost due to the regulation of greenhouse gases.
The Environmental Protection Agency must regulate within 10 years all sources of greenhouse gases that are anthropogenically emitted. This excludes gases attributable to the production of animals for food.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 2
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 Mar 28, 2019 |
| Environment Subcommittee | Referred Mar 29, 2019 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Mar 28, 2019 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 29, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
- Mar 28, 2019Introduced in House
- Mar 28, 2019Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 54, March 28, 2019, page H2918.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R45472 | Market-Based Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Legislation: 108th Through 118th Congresses | Report | Dec 4, 2024 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 940 | Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2019 | Identical bill | Mar 28, 2019 |
| HR 4889 | Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2018 | Reintroduction of | Feb 2, 2018 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To cap the emissions of greenhouse gases through a requirement to purchase carbon permits, to distribute the proceeds of such purchases to eligible individuals, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2019
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Air quality
- Civil actions and liability
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmental regulatory procedures
- Government information and archives
- Government trust funds
- International law and treaties
- International organizations and cooperation
- Licensing and registrations
- Mining
- Oil and gas
- Pollution liability
- Public contracts and procurement
- Tariffs
- User charges and fees
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 28, 2019Introduced 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.
