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Jan 3, 2025
Policy Area:
Energy
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Jan 3, 2025
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Summaries (1)
Introduced in House
- Jan 3, 2025
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<p><strong>Protecting American Energy Production Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits the President from declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes the moratorium. The bill also expresses the sense of Congress that states should maintain primacy (authority) for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on state and private lands.</p><p>Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the formation.</p>
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Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Type: IntroReferral
| Source: House floor actions
| Code: H11100
Jan 3, 2025
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Type: IntroReferral
| Source: House floor actions
| Code: H11100
Jan 3, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral
| Source: Library of Congress
| Code: Intro-H
Jan 3, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral
| Source: Library of Congress
| Code: 1000
Jan 3, 2025
Subjects (6)
Congressional-executive branch relations
Energy
(Policy Area)
Mining
Oil and gas
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
State and local government operations
Full Bill Text
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Version: Introduced in House
Version Date: Jan 3, 2025
Last Updated: Nov 8, 2025 6:15 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 133 Introduced in House
(IH) ]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 133
To prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Ms. Boebert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on
Energy and Commerce, 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
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 133 Introduced in House
(IH) ]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 133
To prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Ms. Boebert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on
Energy and Commerce, 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
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting American Energy
Production Act''.
SEC. 2.
(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that States
should maintain primacy for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for
oil and natural gas production on State and private lands.
(b) Prohibition on Declaration of a Moratorium on Hydraulic
Fracturing.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President
may not declare a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless
such moratorium is authorized by an Act of Congress.
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