[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4936 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4936

To amend the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to repeal restrictions on 
                         offshore wind leasing.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2023

 Ms. Ocasio-Cortez (for herself, Ms. Ross, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Kamlager-
   Dove, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Norton, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Scott of 
    Virginia, Ms. McCollum, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. 
 Huffman, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mr. Ivey, Mr. Bowman, 
Mr. Beyer, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Trone, 
Mr. Panetta, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Espaillat, and Mrs. Foushee) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to repeal restrictions on 
                         offshore wind leasing.

    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 ``Nonrestrictive Offshore Wind Act'' 
or the ``NOW Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF OFFSHORE WIND LEASING RESTRICTIONS.

    Paragraph (2) of section 50265(b) of Public Law 117-169 (43 U.S.C. 
3006(b)) is repealed.
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