Driving America Forward Act
Latest action · Apr 9, 2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedApr 9, 2019
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Driving America Forward Act
This bill expands the tax credit for new plug-in electric drive motor vehicles and extends the tax credit for new fuel cell motor vehicles.
(Under current law, taxpayers who purchase a qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicle are eligible for a tax credit of up to $7,500, which begins to phase out once a manufacturer sells 200,000 qualified vehicles.) The bill allows an additional 400,000 vehicles per manufacturer to be eligible for a credit of up to $7,000 before the credit begins to phase out.
The bill also extends the tax credit for fuel cell motor vehicles through 2028. (Under current law, the credit expired after 2017.)
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 9, 2019 to Jul 31, 2019; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MI | Gary C. Peters | Original | Apr 9, 2019 |
| R-TN | Lamar Alexander | Original | Apr 9, 2019 |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | Original | Apr 9, 2019 |
| I-ME | Angus S. King Jr. | Jul 31, 2019 | |
| D-NV | Catherine Cortez Masto | Jul 31, 2019 | |
| D-NH | Margaret Wood Hassan | Jul 31, 2019 | |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Jul 31, 2019 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Apr 9, 2019 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 9, 2019Introduced in Senate
- Apr 9, 2019Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
CRS reports 4
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 4
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R46864 | Alternative Fuels and Vehicles: Legislative Proposals Archived | Report | Jul 28, 2021 |
| R46231 | Electric Vehicles: A Primer on Technology and Selected Policy Issues | Report | Feb 14, 2020 |
| R45747 | Vehicle Electrification: Federal and State Issues Affecting Deployment Archived | Report | Jun 3, 2019 |
| IF11017 | The Plug-In Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Archived | Resource | May 14, 2019 |
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2256 | Driving America Forward Act | Identical bill | Apr 10, 2019 |
| HR 7330 | GREEN Act of 2020 | Related bill | Jun 25, 2020 |
| HR 7516 | Clean Energy Innovation and Deployment Act of 2020 | Related bill | Jul 10, 2020 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify limitations on the credit for plug-in electric drive motor vehicles, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Driving America Forward Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 9, 2019Introduced in Senate
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.
