US Congress Senate Bill 2996 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on May 26 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-05-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

FAIR Energy Policy Act Fossil Aid is Inefficient and Regressive Energy Policy Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to phase out certain tax provisions that apply to fossil fuels. The bill establishes a schedule for decreasing the benefits of the provisions for major integrated oil companies by specified percentages that reach 100% after December 31, 2019. The affected provisions include: the deduction for intangible drilling costs, the deduction for the percentage of depletion of oil and natural gas wells, the deduction for oil related qualified production activities income, the deduction for the amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures, the deduction for the percentage of depletion of oil shale, the deduction for exploration and development costs for oil shale, the capital gains treatment for royalties of coal, the deduction for tertiary injectants, the exception to the passive loss limitation for working interests in oil and natural gas properties, and the marginal wells tax credit.

FAIR Energy Policy Act Fossil Aid is Inefficient and Regressive Energy Policy Act

Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-05-26	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2996/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s2996/BILLS-114s2996is.pdf