[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1743 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1743

  To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the renewable 
                 energy credit, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 26, 2009

  Mr. McCarthy of California introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the renewable 
                 energy credit, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Wind Incentives for a New Decade 
Energy Act of 2009'' or the ``WIND Energy Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDIT.

    (a) Wind.--Paragraph (1) of section 45(d) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 is amended by striking ``January 1, 2013'' and inserting 
``January 1, 2020''.
    (b) Biomass, Geothermal, Small Irrigation, Landfill Gas, Trash, and 
Hydropower.--Each of the following provisions of section 45(d) of such 
Code is amended by striking ``January 1, 2014'' and inserting ``January 
1, 2020'':
            (1) Clauses (i) and (ii) of paragraph (2)(A).
            (2) Clauses (i)(I) and (ii) of paragraph (3)(A).
            (3) Paragraph (4).
            (4) Paragraph (6).
            (5) Paragraph (7).
            (6) Subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (9).
            (7) Subparagraph (B) of section 45(d)(11).
    (c) Credit Allowed Against Alternative Minimum Tax.--Subparagraph 
(B) of section 38(c)(4) of such Code is amended by striking ``and'' at 
the end of clause (vii), by striking the period at the end of clause 
(viii) and inserting ``, and'', and by inserting after clause (viii) 
the following new clause:
                            ``(ix) the credit determined under section 
                        45.''.
    (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to electricity produced and sold after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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