HR 5911
110th Congress
House
Energy
Alcohol as fuel
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Imports
Income tax
Motor vehicle pollution control
Reformulated gasoline
Standards
Tariff
Tax credits
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
RIPE Act of 2008
Introduced: April 29, 2008
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 30, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Apr 29, 2008
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Apr 29, 2008
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Remove Incentives for Producing Ethanol Act of 2008 or the RIPE Act of 2008 - Amends the Clean Air Act to repeal the renewable fuel standard.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate the excise tax credit for alcohol fuel mixtures and the income tax credit for alcohol used as fuel.
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty free treatment for ethyl alcohol or a mixture containing ethyl alcohol if it is to be used as fuel. Applies such treatment to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouses for consumption, on or after the 15th day after this Act's enactment.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Committees of jurisdiction
3
Cosponsors
1