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H.R. 1080 · 119th CongressTaxation

No Solar Panels on Fertile Farmland Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on Feb 6, 2025, with no cosponsors

Sponsored by Miller, Mary E. R-IL · no cosponsors
IntroducedFeb 6, 2025
Reported—
Passed one chamber—
Passed both—
Law—
What it changes · CRS summary

Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 224 words.

No Solar Panels on Fertile Farmland Act of 2025 This bill excludes expenses for certain property and facilities placed into service on prime farmland from multiple energy-related tax credits. Specifically, the bill excludes expenses for property placed into service on prime farmland from the residential clean energy tax credit (tax credit for up to 30% of the cost to install solar water heating property, solar electric property, fuel cell property, small wind energy property, geothermal heat pump property, or battery storage technology); renewable electricity production tax credit (tax credit for electricity that is produced from a qualified facility [for which construction generally begins before 2025] using wind, solar, or other specific types of renewable energy); clean electricity production tax credit (tax credit for electricity that is produced from a qualified facility that is placed into service after 2024 and has a greenhouse gas emissions rate of zero); energy investment tax credit (tax credit for investment in qualifying energy property for which construction generally begins before 2025, with some limited exceptions); and clean electricity investment tax credit (tax credit for investment in qualifying energy property placed into service after 2024 and has an anticipated greenhouse gas emissions rate of zero). The bill defines prime farmland as land with the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for the production of food and other related uses.

Context
Committees
House Ways and Means Committee
Policy area
Taxation: 20 of 6,214 bills became law, 113th–118th (0.3%)
Sponsor
0 of 60 bills enacted since 2013
Text versions
1: introduced in house · 505 words
Latest action
Feb 6, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Records
Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 0

The bill status record lists no related bills.

Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]