H.R. 4889: Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2018

115th Congress · introduced 2018-01-29 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.

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Where it came from: introduced 2018-01-29 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2018

Plain summary

Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2018 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Department of the Treasury to establish a carbon trading program that caps the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from crude oil, coal, and natural gas. Beginning in 2019, crude oil refineries, petroleum importers, coal mines, coal importers, and natural gas suppliers or processors must purchase carbon permits equivalent to the amount of CO2 that would be emitted by covered fuels. Treasury will auction these permits to those entities. This bill establishes a declining cap on the quantity of permits issued to reduce CO2 emissions until 2050 when the permits issued represent an amount 80% below 2005 CO2 emission levels. Treasury must issue permits for carbon capture and sequestration of CO2 from covered fuels. This bill provides for the trading or sale of permits between entities, the banking by entities of permits for future years, and the borrowing by Treasury of permits from future years to stabilize permit prices. Auction proceeds and penalties are returned to U.S. citizens lawfully present in the United States using the Healthy Climate Trust Fund established by this bill. Treasury must impose fees on the import and pay fees for the export of carbon-intensive goods when the export country does not have equivalent measures to regulate greenhouse gases. Carbon-intensive goods are goods with an increased cost due to the regulation of greenhouse gases. The Environmental Protection Agency must regulate within 10 years all sources of greenhouse gases that are anthropogenically emitted. This excludes gases attributable to the production of animals for food.

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Official text

Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2018

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8] · 36 cosponsors

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Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Peter Welch (D-VT), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), André Carson (D-IN), Judy Chu (D-CA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Darren Soto (D-FL)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8] reported raising $2.5 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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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).
Rulemaking: The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.
Securities: Financial investments that can be bought and sold, such as stocks and bonds.

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
Congress.gov
Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115hr4889.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/hr>

Record fed-us-cong115-hr4889 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115