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H.R. 2296: Job Creation through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act

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H.R. 2296: Job Creation through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act

114th Congress · introduced 2015-05-13 · Energy · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-05-13 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power. 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

Job Creation through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act

Plain summary

Job Creation through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a Financing Energy Efficient Manufacturing Program to provide grants to establish or expand programs to finance energy efficiency retrofit, onsite clean and renewable energy, smart grid systems, and alternative vehicle fleet projects for industrial businesses. DOE must establish a process to identify financing opportunities for manufacturing and industrial business with asset portfolios across multiple states. Grant recipients must give a higher priority to those programs that: (1) leverage private and nonfederal sources of funding, and (2) aim to expand the use of energy efficiency project financing using private sources of funding. Grant recipients must also collect, share, and report on data resulting from programs carried out under this bill. DOE must incorporate the data into appropriate DOE databases, with provisions for the protection of confidential business data.

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Official text

Job Creation through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17] · 32 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), James A. Himes (D-CT), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Paul Tonko (D-NY), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Grace Meng (D-NY)

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Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr2296 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114