US Congress House Bill 2820 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on September 6 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-09-20 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Readiness Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Advanced Composites Development Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretaries of Transportation (DOT), Energy (DOE), Defense (DOD), and Homeland Security (DHS), to carry out a program to improve the nation's transportation infrastructure, advance the technologies used to produce alternative energy, enhance our military security, and develop new disaster mitigation systems by making grants to consortia for the establishment and operation of Advanced Composites Development Centers. Instructs the Secretaries to work with stakeholders to identify problems that can be solved over a period of five years through the development of an advanced composite material. Requires such Centers, by working with the private sector, to strive to produce new composite materials that are lighter, stronger, and more durable than existing materials and that have an immediate practical application.

Advanced Composites Development Act of 2011

Rep. Michael Michaud [D-ME]

Rep. Hansen Clarke [D-MI]

Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-09-20	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
2011-09-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
2011-09-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
2011-09-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications.
2011-09-07	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
2011-09-07	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
2011-09-06	House	Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
2011-09-06	House	Referred to House Armed Services
2011-09-06	House	Referred to House Homeland Security
2011-09-06	House	Referred to House Science, Space, and Technology
2011-09-06	House	Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.

SB608 (Related) 2011-03-17 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
SB1210 (Related) 2011-06-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/2820/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr2820/BILLS-112hr2820ih.pdf