Apollo Energy Independence Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6385
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Armed Forces and National Security
Biomass energy
Bonds
Building construction
Cellulose
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Commuting
Cost accounting
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric appliances
Electric power production
Electric vehicles
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefit plans
Energy conservation
Energy crops
Energy development
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy storage
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government spending reductions
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Green products
Gulf of Mexico
High technology
Housing and Community Development
Hydroelectric power
Hydrogen
Income tax
Industrial buildings
Labor and Employment
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Nuclear energy
Nuclear power plants
Ocean energy resources
Oil and gas leases
Oils and fats
Petroleum
Post exchanges
Public schools
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Solar energy
Tariff
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation
Telecommunication rates
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Apollo Energy Independence Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide tax incentives for energy conservation and production, including provisions to: (1) make permanent the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources and to include marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy as a resource for purposes of such credit; (2) make permanent the energy tax credit for solar energy, fuel cell, and microturbine property; (3) allow a new energy tax credit for combined heat and power system property; (4) provide for the issuance of new clean renewable energy bonds; (5) increase the tax credit for advanced nuclear power production; (6) make permanent the tax credits for residential energy efficient property, energy efficiency existing homes, the production of energy efficient household appliances, and the tax deduction for energy efficient commercial buildings; (7) allow tax credits for new alternative motor vehicles, including qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles, vehicles that achieve a fuel economy standard of 100 miles per gallon, and advanced technology motor vehicles; (8) allow tax credits for the production of cellulosic biofuel and for hydrogen infrastructure costs; (9) increase and make permanent the tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property expenditures; and (10) allow employers a tax credit for providing transit passes to employees.

Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide full loan guarantees for the construction of advanced nuclear energy facilities. 

Establishes in the Treasury the Petroleum Reduction Trust Fund. Allocates 90% of civil penalties for automobile fuel economy violations to such Fund for retail purchases of ethanol, biodiesel, and other alternative fuels. 

Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) carry out research programs for onboard storage of hydrogen in light-duty motor vehicles and for the development of plug-in electric drive vehicle technology; and (2) study daily and seasonal energy costs in public schools.

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the tariff duty on ethanol until December 31, 2010.

Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a grant program for green school construction and improvement. 

Sets forth revenue offset provisions, including: (1) a moratorium on earmarks in the 110th Congress; (2) establishment of fees for oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico and user fees for certain food safety and inspection services; (3) a reduction in payments under the Department of Agriculture commodity program; (4) consolidation of Department of Defense exchange stores system; and (5) a limitation of universal service fund support.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2008-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Rules, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Armed Services, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Rules, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Armed Services, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Rules, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Armed Services, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Rules, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Armed Services, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Rules, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Armed Services, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Rules, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Armed Services, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Rules, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Armed Services, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Rules, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Armed Services, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Rules, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Armed Services, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Rules, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Armed Services, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1366-1367)
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House