S596-119

In Committee

Critical Materials Future Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Feb 13, 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

This bill, Critical Materials Future Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting federal agencies and legislative administrators. The main policy domain is Government Operations, Trade, Finance.

Who Benefits and How

federal agencies and legislative administrators may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Critical Materials Future Act of 2025.
  • Section id7ae902c1991b4f33b8b2e3f16c237b5c: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term country of risk has the meaning given the term in section 10114(a) of the Research and Development, Competition, and...
  • Section id0b2572d39eaf4a48b10a6b4d0b998372: 3. Purposes The purposes of this Act are— to support domestic critical material processing with innovative financial tools to reduce supply chain...
  • Section idd7a051b85bd64f0ca0a2bb865ad9965a: 4. Domestic critical material processing pilot program Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish a pilot...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Critical Materials Future Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting federal agencies and legislative administrators.

Key Policy Areas

Government Operations, Trade, Finance

Primary Purpose

This bill, Critical Materials Future Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting federal agencies and legislative administrators.

Policy Domains

Government Operations Trade Finance

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • federal agencies and legislative administrators
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federal agencies and legislative administrators:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
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federal implementing agencies:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Mar 12, 2025

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: …

Feb 13, 2025

Mr. Hickenlooper (for himself, Mr. Graham, Mr. Coons, and Mr. …

Feb 13, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and …

Feb 13, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Government Operations Trade Finance
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_energy"
→ Secretary of Energy
"secretary_of_defense"
→ Secretary of Defense
"secretary_of_commerce"
→ Secretary of Commerce

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"innovative financial tools" §id7ae902c1991b4f33b8b2e3f16c237b5c

financial instruments to support demand-side economic mechanisms, including— pricing support mechanisms, such as contracts for difference and price floors, advanced market commitments, and forward contracts

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