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HR 4479 109th Congress House Energy Agriculture and Food Alaska Commerce Depreciation and amortization Energy assistance for the poor Energy prices Energy research Farmers Gas in submerged lands Gas industry Gas pipelines Gasoline Gulf of Mexico Income tax Natural gas Oil and gas leases Oil and gas royalties Petroleum Petroleum in submerged lands

Energy Consumer Relief Act of 2005

Introduced: December 8, 2005 See on congress.gov
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Mar 27, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Jan 3, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Dec 16, 2005
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
Dec 8, 2005
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Science, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, and Small Business, 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.
Dec 8, 2005
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Energy Consumer Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal oil and gas tax subsidies including: (1) the election to expense certain refineries; (2) treatment of natural gas distribution lines as 15-year property; (3) treatment of natural gas gathering lines as 7-year property; (4) the new rule for determining small refiner exception to oil depletion deduction; and (5) amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures.

Repeals certain oil and gas production incentives, including those with respect to: (1) royalty relief for deep water production; (2) the Alaska offshore royalty suspension; (3) oil and gas leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska; (4) management of federal oil and gas leasing programs; (5) oil and gas research programs); and (6) ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resources.

Instructs the President to suspend royalty relief for production of crude oil or natural gas from federal lands during periods in which the average price has risen over specified amounts.

Requires that specified increased revenues received in the Treasury as the result of the enactment of this Act be made directly available to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for obligation and expenditure under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a refundable tax credit for energy cost assistance for farmers and ranchers.

Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish an Energy Emergency Grant Program to make grants to small business concerns that have suffered substantial economic injury as a result of a significant increase in the price of heating oil, natural gas, gasoline, transportation fuel, propane, or kerosene.

What's happening now March 27, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 9
 Cosponsors 16
All 16 Democratic 16
D
Baldwin, Tammy
Wisconsin · May 16, 2006
 D
Lynch, Stephen F.
Massachusetts · Apr 25, 2006
 D
Matsui, Doris O.
California · Apr 25, 2006
 D
Scott, Robert C. "Bobby"
Virginia · Apr 25, 2006
 D
McCollum, Betty
Minnesota · Feb 16, 2006
 D
Moore, Gwen
Wisconsin · Feb 16, 2006
 D
Neal, Richard E.
Massachusetts · Feb 14, 2006
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Pelosi, Nancy
California · Feb 14, 2006
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Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Jan 31, 2006
 D
Van Hollen, Chris
Maryland · Dec 16, 2005
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McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Dec 15, 2005
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Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Dec 15, 2005
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Dec 13, 2005
 D
Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Dec 13, 2005
 D
DeLauro, Rosa L.
Connecticut · Dec 8, 2005
 D
Markey, Edward J.
Massachusetts · Dec 8, 2005
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4479: Energy Consumer Relief Act of 2005. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4479/
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