Some small advances for walking/bicycling in the federal Energy Bill :: Missouri Bicycle Federation
So the Commuter Act did not pass. There’s still some good news for cyclists.
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Some small advances for walking/bicycling in the federal Energy Bill
Monday, December 24, 2007
The recent federal Energy Bill (full text here) was to include a suite of conservation measures. The Bicycle Commuter Act, which would have allowed employers to give tax-free subsidies to bicycle commuters similar to those they can now give to carpoolers and transit riders, was part of this proposal.
Unfortunately the entire suite of conservation measures was stripped from the bill at the last minute, by a vote of 59-41 in the Senate (60 votes required to pass).
Some small but important measures did make it into the final version of the bill that was signed by the President Bush: