SAVE Jobs Act
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Save American Vital Energy Jobs Act or the SAVE Jobs Act
This bill extends energy-related tax provisions and expands incentives for job creation in the energy sector during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency period.
Specifically, the bill
- extends for one year the construction period for carbon oxide sequestration facilities for purposes of the tax credit,
- suspends capitalization rules in 2020 to permit immediate expensing of certain inventory costs,
- reduces the required deposit of certain motor fuel excise taxes from 95% to 25%,
- allows expensing of intangible drilling costs in 2020,
- permits extensions and suspensions of production and operations under onshore and offshore leases during the COVID-19 emergency period,
- requires a royalty rate reduction during the COVID-19 emergency period for a maximum 180-day period, and
- requires the Department of the Interior to delay until July 1, 2022, the effective date for compliance with the 2016 final rule titled Consolidated Federal Oil & Gas and Federal & Indian Coal Valuation Reform.
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7579: SAVE Jobs Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-7579/
"H.R. 7579: SAVE Jobs Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-7579/.
H.R. 7579, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-7579/.
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