Energy Technology and Planning Act of 1979
Latest action. Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
Energy Technology and Planning Act of 1979 - Title I: Energy Technology and Planning - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to assure that policies and programs are established by the Federal Government, the States and the private sector to synchronize the production, distribution, and use of energy with research and technological development of new methods for energy production, distribution, consumption, and waste disposal. Declares further that such policies and programs be established with due regard for their effects upon the use of materials, upon the natural environment, and upon social institutions, values, and mores. Title II: National Energy Policy Plan - Directs the President to prepare and submit to the Congress a National Energy Policy Plan setting forth objectives, strategies, and contingency plans for the system of energy production, conservation, distribution, consumption, and waste disposal. Requires the President to consult with regional, State, and local governments, agencies, citizens, private businesses, and other groups and individuals in the formulation of such plan. Sets forth details of such plan and directs the President to recommend legislation and administrative actions necessary to achieve the purposes of such plan. Title III: Congressional Review - Directs each House of Congress to approve, disapprove, or amend such plan and allows the President to resubmit the proposed plan with modifications in the event of congressional disapproval. Title IV: Implementation - Directs the President to report to the Congress by July 1, 1980, on programs and organizational structures within the executive branch as he deems to be required to prepare such plan. States that such report shall include a program of energy research and development and legislative recommendations for establishing programs and structures for carrying out programs contained in such plan. Directs the President to recommend programs and methods of energy policy analysis designed to provide forecasts of unanticipated environmental, economic, social, and political effects of activities resulting from implementation of such plan. Directs the President to take appropriate actions to assure that Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, independent agencies and the private sector carry out their programs in compliance with the objectives of such plan. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act. Title V: Conforming Amendments - Amends the Federal Nonnuclear Research and Development Act of 1974 to repeal the requirement that the Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration prepare a comprehensive plan for energy research, development, and demonstration, and to make such Act conform to the provisions of this Act with respect to the National Energy Policy Plan.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on June 26, 1979. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on June 26, 1979: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the House
- Passage by the Senate
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 96th Congress (1979-80), 613 of the 12,581 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 4.9 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
HAROLD HOLLENBECK (R-NJ) introduced it on June 26, 1979. No cosponsors are recorded.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on June 26, 1979, 17243 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 17243 days ago, on June 26, 1979.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 96th Congress has not finished by January 3, 1981 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseIn committee, no floor vote yet
- SenateAwaits House passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers