North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-2012
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2015-09-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Alternative and renewable resources
Appropriations
Arctic Ocean
Arctic and polar regions
Atlantic Ocean
Building construction
Business records
Canada
Civil actions and liability
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Commodities markets
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Dams and canals
Department of Agriculture
Department of Energy
Department of the Interior
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Electric power generation and transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency planning and evacuation
Employment and training programs
Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental technology
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Forests, forestry, trees
General energy matters
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Gulf of Mexico
Higher education
Historic sites and heritage areas
Hunting and fishing
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Income tax credits
Indian lands and resources rights
Industrial facilities
Infrastructure development
Intellectual property
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
International organizations and cooperation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Judicial review and appeals
Kansas
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Latin America
Licensing and registrations
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Low- and moderate-income housing
Manufacturing
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Materials
Metals
Mexico
Mining
Montana
Motor carriers
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Nuclear power
Oil and gas
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Performance measurement
Product safety and quality
Public contracts and procurement
Public transit
Public utilities and utility rates
Public-private cooperation
Radioactive wastes and releases
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Roads and highways
Rural conditions and development
Science and engineering education
Service industries
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Strategic materials and reserves
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade restrictions
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Virginia
Vocational and technical education
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: 

Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 with respect to energy efficiency in buildings and appliances.
 
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the Department of Energy (DOE) shall conduct activities with respect to manufacturing energy efficiency.
 

Vehicle Innovation Act of 2015

 
DOE shall conduct research, development, engineering, demonstration, and commercial application programs regarding passenger as well as medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and transit vehicles.
 
The Federal Power Act is amended with respect to cybersecurity threats, and requirements are prescribed for enhanced electric grid security as well as bulk-power system reliability.
 
The EPCA is amended regarding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
 
The Natural Gas Act is amended with respect to liquefied natural gas exports.
 
DOE shall conduct programs with respect to electric grid storage and related grid matters.
 
The Department of Energy High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 is replaced by the Exascale Computing Act of 2015, and DOE shall conduct research for development of two or more exascale computing machine architectures.
 
The bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and specified other Acts regarding:
 
 
hydroelectric power,
 
geothermal energy,
 
marine hydrokinetic renewable energy,
 
biomass,
 
oil and gas,
 
helium,
 
specified critical minerals,
 
coal,
 
nuclear energy,
 
21st century energy workforce development, and 
 
recycled carbon fiber and nonrecycled mixed plastics.
 
 
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 and other Acts are amended to:
 
 
revise or prescribe requirements for loan and loan guarantee incentives for innovative technologies, and
 
establish an e-prize competition or challenge pilot program to implement community and regional energy solutions to reduce energy costs in high-cost regions.
 
 
DOE and the Department of the Interior shall establish a joint NEWS Office and Interagency Coordination Committee on the Nexus of Energy and Water for Sustainability.
 
Interior may develop a current and accurate multipurpose cadastre to support federal land management activities.
 
The Department of Energy Organization Act is amended to:
 
 
direct the President to establish a Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force, 
 
rename the DOE Under Secretary for Science as the Under Secretary for Science and Energy,
 
direct the DOE Energy Information Administration (EIA) to develop a plan to identify all oil inventories and other physical oil assets owned by the 50 largest traders of oil contracts, and
 
create within the EIA a Financial Market Analysis Office.
 
 
The bill establishes a Working Group on Energy Markets.
 
The EPCA is amended to repeal the mandates for various specified studies, reports, plans, and programs.
 
The bill establishes a National Park Service Critical Maintenance and Revitalization Conservation Fund, and revises requirements for the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the Historic Preservation Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-08
text: Conference held.
action_date: 2016-09-08
text: Conference committee actions: Conference held.
action_date: 2016-09-07
text: APPOINTMENT OF CONFEREE - The Chair announced the appointment of Mr. Kinzinger of Illinois as a conferee on S. 2012 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Whitfield of Kentucky.
action_date: 2016-07-12
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2016-07-12
text: Senate disagrees to the House amendment to the Senate bill, agrees to request for conference, and the Presiding Officer appoints the following conferees: Murkowski, Barrasso, Risch, Cornyn, Cantwell, Wyden, and Sanders. (consideration: CR S4975)
action_date: 2016-07-12
text: Motion to disagree to the House amendment to the Senate bill, agree to request for conference, and the Presiding Officer appoints the following conferees: Murkowski, Barrasso, Risch, Cornyn, Cantwell, Wyden, and Sanders agreed to by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S4975)
action_date: 2016-07-12
text: Cloture on the motion to disagree to the House amendment to the Senate bill, agree to request for conference, and the Presiding Officer appoints the following conferees: Murkowski, Barrasso, Risch, Cornyn, Cantwell, Wyden, and Sanders invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 84 - 3. Record Vote Number: 125. (consideration: CR S4975; text: CR S4975)
action_date: 2016-07-12
text: Cloture motion on the motion to disagree to the House amendment to the Senate bill, agree to request for conference, and the Presiding Officer appoints the following conferees: Murkowski, Barrasso, Risch, Cornyn, Cantwell, Wyden, and Sanders presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S4962-4963; text: S4962-4963)
action_date: 2016-07-12
text: Motion to disagree to the House amendment to the Senate bill, agree to request for conference, and the Presiding Officer appoints the following conferees: Murkowski, Barrasso, Risch, Cornyn, Cantwell, Wyden, and Sanders made in Senate. (consideration: CR S4962)
action_date: 2016-07-12
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S4962-4975)
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill and House requests a conference.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for consideration of secs. 1005, 1006, 1010, 1014, 1016-1019, 1022, 3001, 4724, title VII, and sec. 10331 of the Senate bill and secs. 2007, 3116, 3117, and 3141 of Division A, and title IX of Division B, subtitle D of title II of Divsion C of the House amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Hardy, Zeldin, and DeFazio.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology for consideration of secs. 1014, 1201, 1203, 1301-1304, 1306-1308, 1310, 1311, 2002, 2301, 2401, part III of subtitle A of title III, secs. 3101, 3302, 3307, 3402, 3403, 3501, 3502, 4001, 4002, 4006, 4101, subtitle C of title IV, secs. 4402, 4404, 4406, 4720, 4721, 4727, 4728, and 4737 of the Senate bill, and sec. 1109 and title VII of Division A, and Division D of the House amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Smith (TX), Weber (TX), and Johnson, E. B..
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Natural Resources for consideration of secs. 2308, 3001, part II of title II, 3017, 3104, 3109, 3201, 3301-3306, 3308-3312, 4006, 4401, 4403, 4405, 4407, 4410, 4412-4414, title V, sec. 6001, subtitle A of title VI, sec. 6202, title VIII, title IX, subtitles A, B, and C of title X, parts I, II, III, and IV of subtitle D of title X, and secs. 10341 and 10345 of the Senate bill, and secs. 1115 and 1116 of Division A, Division B, and Division C of the House amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Bishop (UT), Young (AK), Lummis, Denham, Westerman, Grijalva, Huffman, and Dingell.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Agriculture for consideration of secs. 3017, 3305, 4501, 4502, 5002, part II of subtitle C of title X, and sec. 10233 of the Senate bill, and secs. 1116 and 5013 of division A, Division B, and secs. 1031, 1032, 1035-1037, subtitle K of title I, sec. 2013, subtitles F, M, and Q of title II, and title XXV of Division C of the House amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Conaway, Thompson (PA), and Peterson.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Energy and Commerce for consideration of the Senate bill and the House amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Upton, Barton, Whitfield, Shimkus, Latta, McMorris Rodgers, Olson, McKinley, Pompeo, Griffith, Johnson (OH), Flores, Mullin, Pallone, Rush, Capps, Matsui, Castor (FL), Sarbanes, Welch, Lujan, Ben Ray (NM), Tonko, and Loebsack.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: On motion that the House instruct conferees Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 205 - 212 (Roll no. 264). (consideration: CR H3260-3261)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question on adoption of the Grijalva motion to instruct conferees to S. 2012.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the motion to instruct, the Chair put the question on the motion and by voice vote, announced that the nays had prevailed. Mr. Grijalva demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the motion to instruct until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H3219)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with an hour of debate on the motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House at the conference on disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the House amendment to the bill S. 2012 to be instructed to insist on inclusion of section 5002.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Mr. Grijalva moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H3219; text: CR H3219)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: On motion that the House insist upon its amendment, and request a conference Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H3219)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 744, Mr. Barton moved that the House insist upon its amendment, and request a conference.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 241 - 178 (Roll no. 250).
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 241 - 178 (Roll no. 250).
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: On motion to commit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 178 - 239 (Roll no. 249). (consideration: CR H3217-3218)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3217-3218, H3219-3220)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 and a previous order of the House, further proceedings on the Peters (CA) motion to commit were postponed until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: The previous question on the motion to commit with instructions was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H3208)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Peters (CA) motion to commit with instructions, pending a reservation of a point of order. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment inserting a new section pertaining to consideration of impacts on climate change. Subsequently, the reservation was removed.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Mr. Peters moved to commit with instructions to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. (consideration: CR H3207; text: CR H3207)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: The previous question was ordered on S. 2012, as amended, pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H3207)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on S. 2012, as amended.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: The resolution provides for consideration of S. 2012 and H.R. 5233.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 744. (consideration: CR H3117-3208; text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H3117-3198)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: ORDER OF PROCEDURE - Mr. Whitfield asked unanimous consent that the question of adoption of a motion to commit on S. 2012 may be subject to postponement as though under clause 8 or rule 20. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2016-05-24
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 744 Reported to House. The resolution provides for consideration of S. 2012 and H.R. 5233.
action_date: 2016-04-21
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2016-04-21
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2016-04-21
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 85 - 12. Record Vote Number: 54. (text: CR S2208-2289)
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 85 - 12. Record Vote Number: 54.(text: CR S2208-2289)
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Motion by Senator McConnell to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the measure (Record Vote No. 17) rendered moot in Senate.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Cloture motion on the measure rendered moot in Senate.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S2207-2289)
action_date: 2016-04-19
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S2145-2191)
action_date: 2016-02-04
text: Motion by Senator McConnell to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the measure (Roll Call Vote No. 17) entered in Senate.
action_date: 2016-02-04
text: Cloture on the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 43 - 54. Record Vote Number: 17. (consideration: CR S646; text: CR S646)
action_date: 2016-02-04
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S637-646, S649)
action_date: 2016-02-03
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S539-570)
action_date: 2016-02-02
text: Cloture motion on the measure presented in Senate. (consideraton: CR S477; text: S477)
action_date: 2016-02-02
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S460-470, S470-484)
action_date: 2016-02-01
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S405-421)
action_date: 2016-01-28
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S299-326)
action_date: 2016-01-27
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S217-224, S224-240, S243-247)
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 218.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Murkowski. With written report No. 114-138.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Murkowski. With written report No. 114-138.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in Senate