Energy Efficiency Cornerstone Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3263
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Air conditioning
Alternative energy sources
Building construction
Building laws
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Computer software
Condominium (Housing)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Cooperative housing
Cost effectiveness
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Electric appliances
Electric power
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Electric vehicles
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Federal office buildings
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Gas companies
Government Operations and Politics
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Heat pumps
Heating
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Industrial buildings
Infrastructure
Labeling
Law
Lighting
Minimum tax
Mobile homes
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicle safety
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Performance measurement
Petroleum
Pollution control
Prefabricated buildings
Refrigeration
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Standards
State laws
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation
Technological innovations
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: 
Energy Efficiency Cornerstone Act of 2005 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) to expand the scope of products encompassed within the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles, including testing requirements and energy conservation standards for additional consumer and commercial products.
 
Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act (ECPA) to set forth additional funding incentives for state building energy efficiency codes.
 
Amends the National Manufacturing Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to subject its energy conservation standards to the most recent version of the International Energy Conservation Code.
 
Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to subject energy efficiency standards and a model energy code to the 2004 International Energy Conservation Code. 
 
Amends EPCA to establish within the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency a voluntary program to identify and promote energy-efficient products and buildings through voluntary labeling of, or other forms of communication about, products and buildings that meet the highest energy efficiency standards.
 
Amends the ECPA to: (1) subject federal building performance standards to the 2004 International Energy Conservation Code; and (2) require all housing constructed under the military housing privatization initiative of the Department of Defense to be Energy Star qualified and equipped with Energy Star appliances and FEMP designated appliances, including Energy Star lighting.
 
 Amends EPCA and the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to modify compliance requirements governing alternative fuel use by light duty federal vehicles.
 
Amends federal transportation law to modify standards for executive agency automobiles.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to enter into voluntary agreements with entities in industrial sectors that consume significant quantities of primary energy for each unit of physical output to reduce the energy intensity of their production activities.
 
Instructs the Secretary to establish a financial assistance pilot program for state implementation of pilot projects for energy efficiency programs and reduction of consumption of electricity or natural gas.
 
Amends the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act of 1978 to require a state regulatory authority or non-regulated utility to implement an energy efficiency resource program to reduce consumer electricity or gas consumption.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth business related credits for: (1) construction of new energy efficient homes; (2) energy efficiency improvements to existing homes; and (3) energy efficient appliances.
 
Allows as a deduction from gross income: (1) an amount equal to the cost of energy efficient commercial building property placed in service during the taxable year; and (2) certain energy efficient property used in business and residential rental property.
 
Establishes a tax credit for: (1) energy efficient building property expenditures; (2) installation of qualified fuel cells; and (3) qualified fuel cell motor vehicles and hybrid motor vehicle. 
 
Revises requirements for the energy credit for combined heat and power system property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Financial Services, 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.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Financial Services, 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.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Financial Services, 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.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Financial Services, 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.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Introduced in House