American Automobile Industry Promotion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1915
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alcohol as fuel
Automobile industry
Automobiles
Biomass energy
Commerce
Commercialization
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric batteries
Electric vehicles
Elementary and secondary education
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to research
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income tax
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Nanotechnology
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Tax credits
Taxation
Teaching materials
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation research
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
American Automobile Industry Promotion Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) offer to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to assess state-of-the-art battery technologies with potential application for electric drive transportation; (2) conduct a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application for electric drive transportation technology (i.e., vehicles that use electric motors for all or part of the motive power); and (3) establish and carry out an Advanced Battery Initiative to support research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of battery technologies in on-road or nonroad vehicles.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to redefine the new advanced lean burn technology motor vehicle credit to suspend, until 2012 and later model vehicles, requirements that vehicles, to qualify for the credit, receive a certificate stating they meet or exceed certain weight and emission standards.
 
Amends the Clean Air Act to: (1) define &quot;biodiesel&quot; and &quot;biodiesel blend&quot;; and (2) require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate regulations to establish standards for each biodiesel blend.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House