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H.R. 259: Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act
- Introduced:
- Jan 15, 2013
- Status:
- Referred to Committee on Jan 15, 2013
- Prognosis
- 0% chance of being enacted
This bill was assigned to a congressional committee on January 15, 2013, which will consider it before possibly sending it on to the House or Senate as a whole.
Introduced
Jan 15, 2013
Reported by Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by the President
- Sponsor
- Mike Pompeo
Representative for Kansas's 4th congressional district
- Party
- Republican
- Text
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- Last Updated
- Jan 15, 2013
- Length
- 13 pages
H.R. 3308 (112th)
was a previous version of this bill.
Referred to Committee
Last Action: Nov 02, 2011
S. 2279
(Related)
Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act of 2014
Referred to Committee
Last Action: May 01, 2014
- Full Title
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate certain energy tax subsidies and lower the corporate income tax rate.
- Summary
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No summaries available.
- Prognosis
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1% chance of getting past committee.
0% chance of being enacted.Only 11% of bills made it past committee and only about 3% were enacted in 2011–2013. [show factors | methodology]
- Cosponsors
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36 cosponsors (36R) (show)
- Committees
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- Primary Source
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THOMAS.gov (The Library of Congress)
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- Notes
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H.R. stands for House of Representatives bill.
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The bill’s title was written by its sponsor.
Library of Congress Summary
The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.
1/15/2013--Introduced.
Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal:
(1) the excise tax credits for alcohol fuel, biodiesel, and alternative fuel mixtures;
(2) the tax credits for the purchase of alternative motor vehicles and new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles;
(3) the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property tax credit;
(4) the income tax credits for alcohol, biodiesel, and renewable diesel used as fuel;
(5) the enhanced oil recovery tax credit and the tax credit for producing oil and gas from marginal wells;
(6) the tax credits for producing electricity from renewable resources and from advanced nuclear power facilities;
(7) the tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration;
(8) the energy tax credit; and
(9) the tax credits for investment in qualifying advanced coal projects and qualifying gasification projects.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe a flat income tax rate for corporations, in lieu of the existing marginal tax rates, based upon the overall revenue savings from the repeal of energy tax expenditures by this Act.
House Republican Conference Summary
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