H.R. 6049 - Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008

Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008

H.R. 6049 — 110^th Congress (2007–2008)

Keywords

Alternative energy, solar, wind, geothermal, tax break

Summary

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes. (by CRS)

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Title

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.

Other Titles

• Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008
• Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008
• Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008
• Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008
• Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008
• Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008
• Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008

Sponsor

Charles Rangel

Co-Sponsors

• Earl Blumenauer
• Joseph Crowley
• Artur Davis
• John Larson
• John Lewis
• James McDermott
• Kendrick Meek
• Richard Neal
• Earl Pomeroy
• Christopher Van Hollen
• Gabrielle Giffords
• Jerry McNerney
• Carol Shea-Porter
• Paul Hodes
• John Hall
• Michael Arcuri
• Peter Welch

Subjects

• Taxation
• Air pollution
• Alabama
• Alcoholic beverages
• Alternative energy sources
• Armed forces
• Biomass energy
• Bonds
• Books
• Building construction
• Business
• Capital gains tax
• Carbon dioxide
• Cellulose
• Charitable contributions
• Children
• Civil rights
• Climate change
• Coal
• College costs
• Computers
• Congress
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Construction costs
• Corporation taxes
• Criminal justice
• Curricula
• Defense policy
• Depreciation and amortization
• Diesel motor
• Discrimination in insurance
• Discrimination in medical care
• District of Columbia
• Earned income tax credit
• Economic policy
• Education
• Education of the disadvantaged
• Educational technology
• Electric appliances
• Electric vehicles
• Elementary and secondary education
• Emergency management
• Employee stock options
• Energy
• Energy conservation
• Energy efficiency
• Energy industries
• Enterprise zones
• Environmental protection
• Excise tax
• Finance
• Food
• Foreign corporations
• Foreign policy
• Foreign tax credit
• Fuel cells
• Geothermal resources
• Governmental investigations
• Greenhouse gases
• Health insurance
• Health policy
• Higher education
• Home repair and improvement
• Housing
• Humanities
• Hurricanes
• Hydroelectric power
• Incineration
• Income tax
• Indians
• Individual retirement accounts
• Interest
• International affairs
• Inventories
• Investment tax credit
• Irrigation
• Labor
• Landfills
• Law
• Leases
• Legal fees
• Legal services
• Local taxation
• Losses
• Louisiana
• Marine resources
• Medical care
• Medicine
• Mental health services
• Methane
• Military pay
• Minimum tax
• Minorities
• Minority employment
• Mississippi
• Mortgages
• Motion pictures
• Mutual funds
• Natural resources
• New York City
• New York State
• Ocean energy resources
• Pensions
• Property tax
• Public-private partnerships
• Puerto Rico
• Railroad engineering
• Refuse as fuel
• Research and development tax credit
• Restaurants
• Science policy
• Service stations
• Small business
• Solar energy
• Solid wastes
• Sports
• Sports facilities
• State and local government
• State taxation
• Stocks
• Subsidiary corporations
• Tax administration
• Tax credits
• Tax deductions
• Tax evasion
• Tax exclusion
• Tax exemption
• Tax penalties
• Tax preparers
• Tax rates
• Tax refunds
• Tax returns
• Tax-exempt organizations
• Teachers
• Teaching materials
• Technology
• Telecommunication
• Television industry
• Terrorism
• Trade
• Transportation
• Undercover operations
• Urban affairs
• Urban economic development
• Veterans
• Veterans' benefits
• Water resources
• Welfare

Related Bills

• H.Res. 1212 (110^th) : Providing for Consideration of the Bill (H.R. 6049) to Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to Provide Incentives for Energy Production and Conservation, to Extend Certain Expiring Provisions, to Provide Individual Income Tax Relief, and for Other Purposes.
• H.R. 2776 (110^th) : Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2007
• H.R. 5351 (110^th) : Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008
• H.R. 7060 (110^th) : Renewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act of 2008
• H.R. 7201 (110^th) : Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008
• S. 3125 (110^th) : Energy Independence and Tax Relief Act of 2008
• S. 3335 (110^th) : Jobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster Relief Act of 2008

Major Actions

Introduced	5/14/2008
Referred to Committee
Amendments (4 proposed)
Passed House	5/21/2008
Passed Senate	9/23/2008

Bill History

• All Votes
• All Actions
• Amendments

	Chamber/Committee	Motion	Date	Result
select this vote	House	On Motion to Recommit with Instructions: H.R. 6049 Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act	5/21/2008	This motion DID NOT PASS the House 201 voted YES 220 voted NO 13 voted present/not voting
select this vote	House	On Passage - House - H.R. 6049 Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act	5/21/2008	This bill PASSED the House 263 voted YES 160 voted NO 12 voted present/not voting
select this vote	Senate	Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 6049	6/10/2008	This motion DID NOT PASS the Senate 50 voted YES 44 voted NO 6 voted present/not voting
select this vote	Senate	Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to H. R. 6049	6/17/2008	This motion DID NOT PASS the Senate 52 voted YES 44 voted NO 4 voted present/not voting
select this vote	Senate	Upon Reconsideration Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R.6049	7/29/2008	This motion DID NOT PASS the Senate 53 voted YES 43 voted NO 4 voted present/not voting
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 5635 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.	9/23/2008	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Baucus Amdt. No. 5633	9/23/2008	This amendment PASSED the Senate 93 voted YES 2 voted NO 5 voted present/not voting
select this vote	Senate	Conrad Amdt No. 5634	9/23/2008	This amendment DID NOT PASS the Senate 53 voted YES 42 voted NO 5 voted present/not voting
select this vote	Senate	Motion to Waive C.B.A. Baucus Amdt. No.5635	9/23/2008	This amendment PASSED the Senate 84 voted YES 11 voted NO 5 voted present/not voting
currently selected	Senate	On Passage - Senate - H.R.6049 As Amended	9/23/2008	This bill PASSED the Senate 93 voted YES 2 voted NO 5 voted present/not voting

	Action	Date	Description
	Introduced	5/14/2008
		5/14/2008	Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
		5/15/2008	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
	Put on a legislative calendar	5/15/2008	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 12.
		5/20/2008	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 110-658.
	Put on a legislative calendar	5/20/2008	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 415.
		5/21/2008	Rule H. Res. 1212 passed House.
		5/21/2008	Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 1212.
		5/21/2008	Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 6049 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the bill except those arising under clause 9 and 10 of rule XXI. The amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted.
		5/21/2008	DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 6049.
		5/21/2008	The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
		5/21/2008	Mr. McCrery moved to recommit with instructions to Ways and Means.
		5/21/2008	Floor summary: DEBATE - The House proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the McCrery motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment in the nature of a substitute which inserts a complete new text entitled "Alternative Minimum Tax and Extenders Tax Relief Act of 2008".
		5/21/2008	The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
select this vote	Vote	5/21/2008	On Motion to Recommit with Instructions: H.R. 6049 Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act
select this vote	House Vote on Passage	5/21/2008	On Passage - House - H.R. 6049 Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act
		6/04/2008	Received in the Senate.
		6/05/2008	Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
	Put on a legislative calendar	6/05/2008	Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 767.
		6/06/2008	Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
		6/06/2008	Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate.
select this vote	Vote	6/10/2008	Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 6049
		6/12/2008	Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
		6/12/2008	Second cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate.
		6/16/2008	Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate.
		6/17/2008	Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate.
		6/17/2008	Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure [Record Vote Number 150] made in Senate.
select this vote	Vote	6/17/2008	Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to H. R. 6049
		6/18/2008	Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate.
		6/19/2008	Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate.
		7/29/2008	Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure [Record Vote Number 150] agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
select this vote	Vote	7/29/2008	Upon Reconsideration Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R.6049
		9/17/2008	Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
		9/17/2008	Third cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate.
		9/18/2008	Third cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate.
		9/18/2008	Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate.
		9/23/2008	Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
		9/23/2008	Proposed amendment SA 5634 pursuant to the order of September 18, 2008, having failed to achieve the required 60 votes in the affirmative, withdrawn in Senate.
		9/23/2008	Amendment SA 5635 ruled in order by the chair.
select this vote	Vote	9/23/2008	Amendment SA 5635 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
		9/23/2008	Amendment SA 5633 proposed by Senator Baucus.
		9/23/2008	Amendment SA 5634 proposed by Senator Conrad.
		9/23/2008	Amendment SA 5635 proposed by Senator Baucus to Amendment SA 5633.
		9/23/2008	Point of order raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 5635.
select this vote	Vote	9/23/2008	Baucus Amdt. No. 5633
select this vote	Vote	9/23/2008	Conrad Amdt No. 5634
select this vote	Vote	9/23/2008	Motion to Waive C.B.A. Baucus Amdt. No.5635
currently selected	Senate Vote on Passage	9/23/2008	On Passage - Senate - H.R.6049 As Amended
		9/29/2008	Message on Senate action sent to the House.

	Number	Sponsor	Date Offered	Status
select this vote	S. Amdt. 5633	Baucus, Max [D-MT]	September 23, 2008	Offered on September 22, 2008.
	In the nature of a substitute. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 5634	Conrad, Kent [D-ND]	September 23, 2008	Offered on September 22, 2008.
	To provide alternative minimum tax relief, and for other purposes. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 5635	Baucus, Max [D-MT]	September 23, 2008	Passed by roll call vote on September 22, 2008.
	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Show amendment details
	S. Amdt. 5636	Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]	September 23, 2008	Offered on September 22, 2008.
	Amendment information not available. Show amendment details