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Clean Energy Business Zone Act of 2009

Introduced: October 28, 2009 See on congress.gov
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Oct 23, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Finance and Tax.
Oct 23, 2009
Referred to House Small Business
Oct 23, 2009
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
Oct 23, 2009
Referred to House Ways and Means
Oct 23, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Clean Energy Business Zone Act of 2009 and the Clean Energy Empowerment Zone Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to designate 40 clean energy business zones between 2009 and 2012; (2) allow an increased tax credit for wages paid in such a zone; (3) allow a work opportunity tax credit for wages paid to an employee in such a zone; (4) allow financing of any qualified Green building or clean energy facility with clean renewable energy bonds; (5) allow increased expensing of property in such a zone; and (6) allow an exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale or exchange or any clean energy business zone asset held for more than five years.

Amends the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to waive loan fees for qualified Green building and clean energy facility loans made before 2020.

What's happening now October 23, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Finance and Tax.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 1
Perriello, Thomas
· Oct 28, 2009
Kosmas, Suzanne
· Oct 26, 2009
McMahon, Michael
· Oct 23, 2009
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Thompson, Mike
California · Oct 23, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3919: Clean Energy Business Zone Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-3919/
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"H.R. 3919: Clean Energy Business Zone Act of 2009." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-3919/.
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H.R. 3919, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-3919/.
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