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S 1246 114th Congress Senate

Protecting America's Paper for Recycling Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to revise the definition of municipal solid waste for purposes of the renewable electricity production credit.

Introduced: May 7, 2015 See on congress.gov
Taxation Electric power generation and transmissionIncome tax creditsSolid waste and recycling
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May 7, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 7, 2015
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 Latest action May 7, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Protecting America's Paper for Recycling Act

Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources, to exclude from the definition of "municipal solid waste" solid waste that is collected as part of a system that includes materials recovery and that commingles commonly recycled paper with other solid waste that is not commonly recycled at any point from the time of collection through materials recovery.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
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Baldwin, Tammy
Wisconsin · Jul 8, 2015
 R
Boozman, John
Arkansas · May 7, 2015
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1246: Protecting America's Paper for Recycling Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1246/
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"S. 1246: Protecting America's Paper for Recycling Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1246/.
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S. 1246, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1246/.
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