Enhanced Energy Security Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2747
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2006-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Air conditioning
Alternative energy sources
Automobile engines
Automobile industry
Automobile parts
Bicycles
Biomass energy
Car pools
Cellulose
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Commercialization
Commuting
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer goods
Department of Agriculture
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Diesel motor
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric batteries
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Electric vehicles
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Energy assistance for the poor
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Energy prices
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to transportation
Federal employees
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Gas companies
Gasoline
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Heating
Hydroelectric power
Industrial buildings
Industrial engineering
Landfills
Law
Marketing
Mass rapid transit
Materials
Methane
Motor vehicle pollution control
Nanotechnology
Natural gas
Ocean energy resources
Office of Management and Budget
Petroleum
Propane
Public meetings
Public service advertising
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
School buses
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social Welfare
Soil pollution
Solar energy
Standards
Technological innovations
Telecommuting
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation research
Trucks
Water pollution control
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-04
text: 
Enhanced Energy Security Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Energy and other specified cabinet officials to promulgate regulations to implement a national oil savings plan.
 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to set forth federal fleet conservation requirements to achieve reduced petroleum consumption.
 
Provides assistance to states to: (1) retire fuel-inefficient motor vehicles; and (2) reduce school bus idling.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) conduct a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application for electric drive transportation technology; and (2) establish a research and development program for lightweight materials research and vehicle weight reduction.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to: (1) provide loan guarantees for fuel-efficient automobile manufacturers and suppliers; and (2) require that the federal government consume specified amounts of renewable energy.
 
Establishes the Alternative Fueling Infrastructure Trust Fund.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) deploy new technologies to reduce oil use in transportation, including fuel from cellulosic biomass; (2) competitively award financial incentives for the manufacture of high-efficiency consumer products; and (3) conduct a national media campaign to decrease oil and natural gas consumption.
 
Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to: (1) set forth a federal renewable portfolio standard; and (2) require state regulatory authorities to implement energy efficiency resource programs that include electric utilities and gas utilities.
 
Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to authorize a federal agency to: (1) enter into a separate contract for energy services and conservation measures; and (2) provide the financing necessary to implement such contract.
 
Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to make disaster relief loans to small business concerns for substantial economic injury incurred because of a significant increase in heating oil prices.
 
Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to direct the Secretary to establish, within the Weatherization Assistance Program, a program to assist in the replacement of unsafe or highly inefficient heating and cooling units in low-income households.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-666.
action_date: 2006-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4060-4068)
action_date: 2006-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4059-4060)
action_date: 2006-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate