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S. 2059: Energy Efficient Heating and Cooling Tax Credit Act

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S. 2059: Energy Efficient Heating and Cooling Tax Credit Act

113th Congress · introduced 2014-02-27 · Taxation · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2014-02-27 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 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

Energy Efficient Heating and Cooling Tax Credit Act

Plain summary

Energy Efficient Heating and Cooling Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the tax credit for nonbusiness energy property expenditures to allow a credit for up to $5,000 in a taxable year of qualifying heating conversion expenditures for a principal residence. Defines "qualifying heating conversion expenditures" as expenditures, other than for soil cleanup, for property that is placed in service before January 1, 2019, and used as a heating or cooling system on a building or structure located in a community in which the average residential expenditure for home energy is more than 200% of the national average (as determined by the Energy Information Agency).

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Official text

Energy Efficient Heating and Cooling Tax Credit Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] · 1 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-s2059 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113