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S. 4970 116th Congress Senate

Hydrogen Utilization and Sustainability Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the renewable electricity production credit to include electricity produced from hydrogen.

Introduced: December 7, 2020 Introduced by: Todd Young Republican · Indiana See on congress.gov
Taxation Air qualityAlternative and renewable resourcesClimate change and greenhouse gasesElectric power generation and transmissionIncome tax credits
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Dec 7, 2020
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 Latest action December 7, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Hydrogen Utilization and Sustainability Act

This bill expands the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources to include qualified hydrogen (i.e., hydrogen fuel that has been certified as having nonpositive carbon intensity).

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
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All 1 Democratic 1
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Whitehouse, Sheldon
Rhode Island · Dec 7, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4970: Hydrogen Utilization and Sustainability Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4970/
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"S. 4970: Hydrogen Utilization and Sustainability Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4970/.
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S. 4970, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4970/.
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