To promote the production and use of ethanol.

Bill: 110-hr-3118
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2007-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advertising
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Commerce
Commercialization
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Corn
Credit cards
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric vehicles
Energy crops
Energy prices
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federally-guaranteed loans
Feedstock
Finance and Financial Sector
Franchises (Retail trade)
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income tax
Intellectual property
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas vehicles
Oils and fats
Petroleum industry
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
Research grants
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Sorghum
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation
Trademarks
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: 
Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to prohibit a franchisor from restricting a franchisee from: (1) installing on the marketing premises a renewable fuel pump or tank; (2) converting an existing tank or pump for renewable fuel use; (3) advertising the sale of renewable fuel; (4) selling renewable fuel; (5) purchasing renewable fuel from sources other than the franchisor if the franchisor does not offer its own renewable fuel for sale by the franchisee; (6) listing renewable fuel availability or prices; or (7) allowing for payment of renewable fuel with a credit card. Allows such franchisee activities so long as they do not constitute willful adulteration, mislabeling, or misbranding of motor fuels or other trademark violations.

Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a grants program for universities to demonstrate supplementing corn as an ethanol feedstock with sweet sorghum.

Amends the Clean Air Act and the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide for loan guarantees for closed loop ethanol commercial demonstration projects.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase and extend the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit; (2) make refueling property that uses diesel fuel composed of 20% of biodiesel and renewable biodiesel eligible for the income tax deduction for clean-fuel vehicles and certain refueling property; and (3) increase the credit amount for research relating to alternative and renewable energy processes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Science and Technology, 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: 2007-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Science and Technology, 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: 2007-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Science and Technology, 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: 2007-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Science and Technology, 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: 2007-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Introduced in House