# 115-hr-4889: Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2018

115-hr-4889, Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2018, is a 115th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8] (D-VA); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 115-hr-4889
- Congress: 115
- Title: Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2018
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
- Introduced: 2018-01-29
- Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8] (D-VA)
- Cosponsors: 36
- Policy area: Environmental Protection
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2018 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Department of the Treasury to establish a carbon trading program that caps the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from crude oil, coal, and natural gas. Beginning in 2019, crude oil refineries, petroleum importers, coal mines, coal importers, and natural gas suppliers or processors must purchase carbon permits equivalent to the amount of CO2 that would be emitted by covered fuels. Treasury will auction these permits to those entities. This bill establishes a declining cap on the quantity of permits issued to reduce CO2 emissions until 2050 when the permits issued represent an amount 80% below 2005 CO2 emission levels. Treasury must issue permits for carbon capture and sequestration of CO2 from covered fuels. This bill provides for the trading or sale of permits between entities, the banking by entities of permits for future years, and the borrowing by Treasury of permits from future years to stabilize permit prices. Auction proceeds and penalties are returned to U.S. citizens lawfully present in the United States using the Healthy Climate Trust Fund established by this bill. Treasury must impose fees on the import and pay fees for the export of carbon-intensive goods when the export country does not have equivalent measures to regulate greenhouse gases. Carbon-intensive goods are goods with an increased cost due to the regulation of greenhouse gases. The Environmental Protection Agency must regulate within 10 years all sources of greenhouse gases that are anthropogenically emitted. This excludes gases attributable to the production of animals for food.

## Cosponsors (36)

- Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8] (D-MD), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Velázquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7] (D-NY), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2] (D-MA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] (D-CT), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-12] (D-CA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] (D-IL), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2] (D-CA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20] (D-FL), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-10] (D-CA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-18] (D-CA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-8] (D-PA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17] (D-CA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9] (D-CA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-36] (D-CA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] (D-OR), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lowenthal, Alan S. [D-CA-47] (D-CA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11] (D-VA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3] (D-VA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- RICHARD NOLAN (D-MN), 2018-01-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28] (D-CA), 2018-03-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8] (D-MA), 2018-03-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] (D-OR), 2018-04-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9] (D-TN), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-31] (D-CA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- MICHAEL CAPUANO (D-MA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McEachin, A. Donald [D-VA-4] (D-VA), 2018-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1] (D-ME), 2018-01-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY-13] (D-NY), 2018-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4] (D-MD), 2018-02-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12] (D-NJ), 2018-02-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Carson, André [D-IN-7] (D-IN), 2018-03-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2] (D-WI), 2018-03-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7] (D-AZ), 2018-03-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9] (D-FL), 2018-04-24T00:00:00.000Z

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- 115-hr-6135: Keep Families Together Act
- 115-hr-5087: Assault Weapons Ban of 2018
- 115-hr-4240: Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2017
- 115-hr-3947: Automatic Gunfire Prevention Act
- 115-hr-3440: Dream Act of 2017
- 115-hr-3222: Do No Harm Act

## Sources
- [115-hr-4889 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4889)

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- [115-hr-4240: Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2017](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/115-hr-4240)
- [115-hr-3947: Automatic Gunfire Prevention Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/115-hr-3947)
- [115-hr-3440: Dream Act of 2017](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/115-hr-3440)
- [115-hr-3222: Do No Harm Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/115-hr-3222)
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