A bill to require the President to submit to the House of Representatives and the Senate a report on nationalizing the oil industry.
Latest action. Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Requires the President to submit to the Congress, not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, a report on the feasibility of nationalizing the oil industry. Requires such report to include information on: (1) the costs and benefits of nationalizing the oil industry; (2) the effect of nationalizing the oil industry on allocations of oil, on inflation, and on productivity; (3) the ability to give priority in providing oil to particular groups of consumers by nationalizing the oil industry; (4) the impact of nationalizing the oil industry on the distribution of oil to different income classes, races, geographical areas, and industries and the distribution of oil to males and females; and (5) the efficiency and economy of scale in the transportation, refinement, and allocation of oil from the nationalization of oil. Establishes the Commission on the Nationalization of the Oil Industry to prepare and submit to the President the report required pursuant to this Act.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on July 9, 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 July 9, 1979: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
- 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?
PARREN MITCHELL (D-MD) introduced it on July 9, 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 July 9, 1979, 17230 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 17230 days ago, on July 9, 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