Gold Reserve Transparency Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires recurring independent audits of U.S. gold reserves and directs Treasury to upgrade reserve holdings to current good-delivery standards.
Who Benefits and How
Lawmakers and the public could get more transparency about the condition, security, ownership interests, and historical transactions involving U.S. gold reserves.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Comptroller General and Treasury would have to oversee repeated audits, reporting, and reserve-upgrade work, with related contracting and logistics costs.
Key Provisions
- Requires a third-party assay, inventory, audit, security review, and historical accounting of U.S. gold reserves within nine months and every five years thereafter.
- Requires the Comptroller General to report the results to Congress and Treasury.
- Requires Treasury to upgrade gold reserves to current good-delivery standards within five years.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires recurring independent audits of U.S. gold reserves and directs Treasury to upgrade reserve holdings to current good-delivery standards.
Key Policy Areas
Finance, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires recurring independent audits of U.S. gold reserves and directs Treasury to upgrade reserve holdings to current good-delivery standards.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Lawmakers and the public seeking transparency into federal gold reserves
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Comptroller General and Treasury officials overseeing audits and upgrades
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Mike Lee
R-UT | Primary Sponsor
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Comptroller General and Treasury officials managing the audits and reporting, Treasury management of federal gold reserves meeting current quality standards, Treasury officials funding and managing reserve-upgrade contracts
Positive-direction: Treasury management of federal gold reserves meeting current quality standards
Negative-direction: Comptroller General and Treasury officials managing the audits and reporting, Treasury officials funding and managing reserve-upgrade contracts
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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