United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 7579 (116th)
SAVE Jobs Act
Introduced
13 July 2020
Last action
13 July 2020 · Introduced
Status
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sponsors
Michael Burgess, Bill Flores, John Carter, K. Conaway, Dan Crenshaw, Rob Bishop, Troy Balderson, Greg Pence, Roger Marshall, Pete Olson, Chris Stewart, Eric Crawford, Dan Newhouse, Liz Cheney
Subjects
Energy, Taxation
Source updated
3 December 2025
Summary
Save American Vital Energy Jobs Act or the SAVE Jobs Act This bill extends energy-related tax provisions and expands incentives for job creation in the energy sector during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency period. Specifically, the bill extends for one year the construction period for carbon oxide sequestration facilities for purposes of the tax credit, suspends capitalization rules in 2020 to permit immediate expensing of certain inventory costs, reduces the required deposit of certain motor fuel excise taxes from 95% to 25%, allows expensing of intangible drilling costs in 2020, permits extensions and suspensions of production and operations under onshore and offshore leases during the COVID-19 emergency period, requires a royalty rate reduction during the COVID-19 emergency period for a maximum 180-day period, and requires the Department of the Interior to delay until July 1, 2022, the effective date for compliance with the 2016 final rule titled Consolidated Federal Oil & Gas and Federal & Indian Coal Valuation Reform.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
13 July 2020
Introduced
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Source: IntroReferral
13 July 2020
Referred
Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures.
Source: Committee
13 July 2020
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
13 July 2020
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
- Introduced in House · 13 July 2020 · Official file
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in House (text)
Introduced in House (text)
Introduced in House · EN · 13 July 2020
Introduced in House (PDF)
Introduced in House · EN · 13 July 2020
Introduced in House
summary · EN · 13 July 2020
Sponsors
- Michael Burgess · R · Sponsor
- Bill Flores · R · Sponsor
- John Carter · R · Sponsor
- K. Conaway · R · Sponsor
- Dan Crenshaw · R · Sponsor
- Rob Bishop · R · Sponsor
- Troy Balderson · R · Cosponsor
- Greg Pence · R · Cosponsor
- Roger Marshall · R · Cosponsor
- Pete Olson · R · Cosponsor
- Chris Stewart · R · Cosponsor
- Eric Crawford · R · Cosponsor
- Dan Newhouse · R · Cosponsor
- Liz Cheney · R · Cosponsor
- · hsii00 · Standing
- · hswm00 · Standing
Related records
- related to → SAVE Jobs Act
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7579
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/7579
- us · 116-hr-7579 · source updated 3 December 2025