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H.R. 4916: POWER Act

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H.R. 4916: POWER Act

113th Congress · introduced 2014-06-19 · Taxation · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2014-06-19 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

POWER Act

Plain summary

Power Efficiency and Resiliency Act or the POWER Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a 30% energy tax credit for combined heat and power system property and increase the capacity limitations for such property, (2) extend until December 31, 2018, the placed-in-service deadline for such property, and (3) allow a 30% energy tax credit for waste heat to power property (property comprising a system generating electricity through the recovery of a qualified waste heat resource) placed in service before January 1, 2019.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

POWER Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13] · 24 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Mark E. Amodei (R-NV), Peter Welch (D-VT), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Dina Titus (D-NV), Kathy Castor (D-FL), David P. Joyce (R-OH), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Chellie Pingree (D-ME)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-hr4916 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113