US Congress Senate Bill 163 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: Introduced on January 28 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-01-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Pending: Senate Environment And Public Works Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the head of any other federal agency from implementing or enforcing any regulations, proposals, or actions establishing any carbon dioxide or greenhouse gas emissions reductions until the Administrator, the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, and the Secretary of Commerce certify in writing that the People's Republic of China, India, and the Russian Federation have proposed, implemented, and enforced measures requiring substantially similar reductions. Nullifies any regulation, proposal, or action in effect before such certification is made that requires any carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas emissions reduction.

A bill to prohibit any regulation regarding carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the United States until China, India, and Russia implement similar reductions.

Sen. David Vitter [R-LA]

Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]

Sen. Mike Johanns [R-NE]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-01-28	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

SB107 (Related) 2013-01-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
SB17 (Related) 2013-02-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
HB1881 (Related) 2013-06-14 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
SB176 (Related) 2013-01-29 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/163/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s163/BILLS-113s163is.pdf