Vehicle and Fuel Choices for American Security Act

Bill: 109-s-2025
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2005-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural credit
Agricultural machinery
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Automobile tires
Automobiles
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Depreciation and amortization
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric vehicles
Elementary and secondary education
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to transportation
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Investment tax credit
Labeling
Law
Light rail transit
Mass rapid transit
Materials
Motor vehicle pollution control
Nanotechnology
Petroleum
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public service advertising
Real estate development
Research and development
Right-of-way
Rural economic development
School buses
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Service stations
Standards
Subways
Sugar
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation
Teaching materials
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation research
Trucks
Urban affairs
Urban transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: 
Vehicle and Fuel Choices for American Security Act - Instructs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to publish in the Federal Register an oil savings target and action plan for specified calendar years.

Amends federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to develop a national tire fuel efficiency program for passenger cars and light trucks.

Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a national testing and assessment program to determine the fuel economy of heavy duty vehicles.

Instructs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) prescribe average heavy duty vehicle fuel economy standards; and (2) conduct a research and development program for electric drive transportation technology.

Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a lightweight material research and development program.

Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to direct the Secretary of Energy to accelerate efforts to improve hybrid technologies.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to allow an advanced technology motor vehicles manufacturing tax credit.

Terminates the limitation on the number of qualified hybrid and advanced lean burn technology vehicles eligible for the alternative motor vehicle credit.

Directs the Secretary of Energy to issue regulations requiring that by FY2016 each federal agency achieve at least a 30% reduction in its fleet petroleum consumption.

Amends the IRC to: (1) establish a fuel-efficient tax credit for private fleets; (2) subject heavy vehicles to the depreciation limitation for certain luxury automobiles; and (3) increase the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit.

Requires certain minimum percentages of light-duty motor vehicles manufactured for model years 2012 and beyond to use specified propulsion technologies and fuels.

Amends federal transportation law to establish the Alternative Fueling Infrastructure Trust Fund.

Amends the Clean Air Act to prescribe minimum annual quantities of renewable fuel from cellulosic biomass and sugar.

Amends the the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a low-interest loan and grant program for farmer-owned ethanol producers to develop infrastructure, including pump stations, for the retail delivery of any fuel containing at least 85% ethanol.

Amends federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to develop a program to designate Transit-Oriented Development Corridors.

 Directs the Secretary of Energy to conduct a national media campaign to decrease oil consumption in the United States over the next decade.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4692)
action_date: 2006-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2024-2025)
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate