Keep China Out of Solar Energy Act of 2025
Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.
Summary
What This Bill Does
Restricts federal procurement of solar panels tied to covered Chinese entities, allows limited waivers, and requires reporting and a study on solar procurement and domestic production.
Who Benefits and How
Domestic or non-covered solar suppliers may gain federal procurement opportunities, and policymakers gain more information on solar supply chains and domestic capacity.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Covered Chinese solar entities lose access to federal procurement channels, while OMB, GSA, FAR regulators, and executive agencies face new procurement-control and reporting duties.
Key Provisions
- Requires procurement standards and FAR changes to stop federal contracts, grants, and purchase cards from buying solar panels made or assembled by covered entities.
- Allows waivers only when covered entities are the only viable source and requires quarterly reporting on waiver requests.
- Requires a GAO procurement report and an OMB-commissioned study on domestic production and the global solar supply chain.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Restricts federal procurement of solar panels tied to covered Chinese entities, allows limited waivers, and requires reporting and a study on solar procurement and domestic production.
Key Policy Areas
Trade, Energy, Foreign Policy, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Restricts federal procurement of solar panels tied to covered Chinese entities, allows limited waivers, and requires reporting and a study on solar procurement and domestic production.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Domestic and non-covered solar suppliers
- Federal policymakers focused on supply-chain security
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Covered Chinese solar entities
- Federal procurement administrators
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Rick Scott
R-FL | Primary Sponsor
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Scott of Florida (for himself and Mr. Hawley) introduced …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Executive agencies seeking solar procurement waivers, Federal procurement administrators, Government Accountability Office
Covered Chinese solar panel manufacturers and assemblers, Domestic and non-covered solar suppliers
Positive-direction: Domestic and non-covered solar suppliers
Negative-direction: Covered Chinese solar panel manufacturers and assemblers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the director"
- → Director of the Office of Management and Budget
- "the administrator"
- → Administrator of General Services
We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.
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