Title: Clean Commute for Kids Act of 2019
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Clean Commute for Kids Act of 2019
This bill reauthorizes through FY2025 the Clean School Bus Program, including to authorize the Environmental Protection Agency to award grants for up to 60% of the replacement costs of acquiring clean school buses and charging and fueling infrastructure.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2906 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2906

              To reauthorize the Clean School Bus Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2019

 Mr. Cardenas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
              To reauthorize the Clean School Bus Program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Clean Commute for Kids Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF CLEAN SCHOOL BUSES PROGRAM.

    (a) Definitions.--
            (1) Alternative fuel.--Section 741(a)(2) of the Energy 
        Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16091(a)) is amended--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``or'' after 
                the semicolon;
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
                    ``(D) electricity.''.
            (2) Clean school bus.--Section 741(a)(3) of the Energy 
        Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16091(a)(3)) is amended by 
        striking ``that--'' and all that follows through ``(B) is 
        operated'' and inserting ``that is operated''.
    (b) Program for Retrofit or Replacement of Certain Existing School 
Buses With Clean School Buses.--
            (1) Priority of grant applications.--Section 741(b)(2) of 
        the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16091(b)(2)) is 
        amended--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting before the 
                period at the end ``with clean school buses with low or 
                zero emissions''; and
                    (B) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as 
                follows:
                    ``(B) Retrofitting.--In the case of grant 
                applications to retrofit school buses, the 
                Administrator shall give--
                            ``(i) highest priority to applicants that 
                        propose to retrofit school buses manufactured 
                        in or after model year 1991 to become clean 
                        school buses with low or zero emissions; and
                            ``(ii) second highest priority to 
                        applicants that otherwise propose to retrofit 
                        school buses manufactured in or after model 
                        year 1991 to become clean school buses.''.
            (2) Use of school bus fleet.--Section 741(b)(3)(B) of the 
        Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16091(b)(3)(B)) is amended 
        by inserting ``charged,'' after ``operated,''.
            (3) Replacement grants.--Paragraph (5) of section 741(b) of 
        the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16091(b)) is amended 
        to read as follows:
            ``(5) Replacement grants.--In the case of grants to replace 
        school buses--
                    ``(A) the Administrator may award the grants for up 
                to 60 percent of the replacement costs; and
                    ``(B) such replacement costs may include the costs 
                of acquiring the clean school buses and charging and 
                fueling infrastructure.''.
            (4) Ultra low-sulfur diesel fuel.--Section 741(b) of the 
        Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16091(b)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (6); and
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (7) and (8) as 
                paragraphs (6) and (7), respectively.
    (c) Education.--Paragraph (1) of section 741(c) of the Energy 
Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16091(c)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
        enactment of the Clean Commute for Kids Act of 2019, the 
        Administrator shall develop an education outreach program to 
        promote and explain the grant program under subsection (b), as 
        amended by such Act.''.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 741(d) of the Energy 
Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16091(d)) is amended by striking ``until 
expended--'' and all that follows through the end of the subsection and 
inserting ``until expended, $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 
through 2025.''.
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