Proposed
Bill · 119th Congress · HR 5686
Battery Fire Prevention Act
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Introduced 2025-10-03Topic: environment · taxes · public safetySummary
AI-generated summary, report an errorThis bill creates a federal tax credit equal to 30 percent of what recycling businesses pay for devices that detect batteries, such as X-ray or radio-frequency equipment. It places a 5 percent federal tax on battery sales by manufacturers, producers, and importers starting after December 31, 2025. Money from that tax would go into a new Lithium Battery Buy-Back Trust Fund. The Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency would create a National Battery Recycling Program that approves recycling facilities and gives them grants to collect used lithium batteries, including paying people who turn them in. Federal agencies would be directed to prioritize buying lithium batteries from approved facilities.
Sponsors
- Donald Norcross Democrat sponsor
- 0 cosponsors
Action history
| Date | Chamber | Action | Status effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-03 | House | Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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. | refer |
| 2025-10-03 | House | Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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. | refer |
| 2025-10-03 | House | Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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. | refer |
| 2025-10-03 | Introduced in House | introduce | |
| 2025-10-03 | Introduced in House | introduce |