# H.R. 3109 (119th): Researching Efficient Federal Improvements for Necessary Energy Refining Act or the REFINER Act

Researching Efficient Federal Improvements for Necessary Energy Refining Act or the REFINER Act This bill requires the Department of Energy to direct the National Petroleum Council to publish a report on petrochemical refineries located in the United States. The report must include information concerning (1) the contributions of such refineries to U.S. energy security, (2) analyses and projections with respect to opportunities for expanding the capacities of the refineries and the risks to such refineries, (3) any federal or state executive actions that have contributed to a decline in their capacities, and (4) any recommendations to increase such capacities.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: energy_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: energy_security. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: refining_capacity. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: reporting_mandate. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: unclear. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 303: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure is a prudential energy-study bill. It seeks information about refinery capacity and energy security, which is an ordinary civil good, and it asks for analysis of federal and state executive actions that may have reduced capacity. Those are policy questions on which reasonable people differ. The text does not directly restrain or advance a named moral harm, so it does not warrant a hard moral verdict.
Theological note: The bill concerns the prudent stewardship of energy infrastructure and the public good of national energy security. It creates no direct moral act, and its relevance is limited to ordinary civil prudence about how government gathers information and weighs policy options.

## Recorded votes

Roll 303: On Passage. Yea 230 · Nay 176 · Other 27.

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