Providing Recovery Opportunities & Mitigating Industry’s Shifting Economics (PROMISE) Act
Latest action · Sep 23, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
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.
- IntroducedSep 12, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Providing Recovery Opportunities & Mitigating Industry's Shifting Economics (PROMISE) Act
This bill addresses providing resources to communities affected by the closure of a federally-owned electric generating station.
Among other things, the bill
- authorizes the Department of the Interior to conduct land reuse studies in connection with the closure of an electric generating station to determine the next best use of the property;
- provides for a demonstration project to assist dislocated workers;
- allows Interior to provide annual payments to a state, tribal, or local government for loss of revenues due to the closing of an electric generating facility; and
- establishes a Significantly Impacted Federal Community Economic Adjustment Program to assist substantially and seriously affected communities, businesses, and workers from the effects of energy infrastructure closures.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Sep 12, 2019.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-AZ | Ann Kirkpatrick | Original | Sep 12, 2019 |
| D-AZ | Greg Stanton | Original | Sep 12, 2019 |
| D-AZ | Ruben Gallego | Original | Sep 12, 2019 |
Committees 2
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 Sep 12, 2019 |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Sep 23, 2019 | |
| Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee | Referred Sep 23, 2019 | |
| Federal Lands Subcommittee | Referred Sep 23, 2019 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Sep 12, 2019 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 23, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
- Sep 23, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
- Sep 23, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
- Sep 12, 2019Introduced in House
- Sep 12, 2019Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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. 146, September 12, 2019, page H7706.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide economic stabilization resources to distressed rural communities directly impacted by the closure of an electric generating station, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Providing Recovery Opportunities & Mitigating Industry’s Shifting Economics (PROMISE) Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Advisory bodies
- Coal
- Community life and organization
- Congressional oversight
- Department of the Interior
- Economic development
- Economic performance and conditions
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Employment and training programs
- Energy
- Energy revenues and royalties
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Federal-Indian relations
- Government studies and investigations
- Indian social and development programs
- Infrastructure development
- Intergovernmental relations
- Land use and conservation
- Mining
- Research administration and funding
- Rural conditions and development
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
- State and local taxation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 12, 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.
