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HR 359 · 119th Congress · HouseIn committee

Cost-Share Accountability Act of 2025

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In plain language: Companies and researchers that receive federal energy grants are typically required to pay a share of the project costs, but the Department of Energy has the authority to lower or waive that contribution. This bill requires the Department to publish quarterly reports detailing every time it reduces or eliminates these cost-sharing obligations. The public reports must be sent to congressional committees and posted online, allowing lawmakers and the public to see which recipients were excused from putting up their own money.

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Issues

What this bill touches.

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Who it affects

Who it helps · who it burdens.

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Who it helps

  • Congressional energy and appropriations committeesReceive quarterly reports from the Department of Energy detailing instances where non-federal cost-sharing requirements were reduced or waived.provisional

Who it burdens

  • Department of EnergyMust prepare and submit quarterly reports to specified congressional committees and the public whenever it exercises authority to reduce or waive non-federal cost-sharing requirements.provisional

Dollar-level funding (FEC sector totals) is coming in a later phase.

What it does

The provisions, in plain language.

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  1. Requires the Department of Energy to submit quarterly public reports to Congress detailing each time the agency reduces or waives required non-federal cost-sharing for research, development, demonstration, and commercial application projects, beginning within 120 days of enactment.

    Sec. 2(g)provisional

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The record

How members voted on Cost-Share Accountability Act of 2025.

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  • House · Mar 24, 2025 · 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY

    On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · Passed

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Timeline

How it moved.

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  1. Mar 25, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  2. Mar 24, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  3. Mar 24, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 405 - 0 (Roll no. 72). (text: CR H1196)
  4. Mar 24, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 405 - 0 (Roll no. 72). (text: CR H1196)
  5. Mar 24, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1213)
  6. Mar 24, 2025At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
  7. Mar 24, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 359.
  8. Mar 24, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1196-1197)
  9. Mar 24, 2025Mr. Babin moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
  10. Jan 13, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
  11. Jan 13, 2025Introduced in House
  1. Mar 25, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  2. Mar 24, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  3. Mar 24, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 405 - 0 (Roll no. 72). (text: CR H1196)
  4. Mar 24, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 405 - 0 (Roll no. 72). (text: CR H1196)
  5. Jan 13, 2025Introduced in House

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Civic Herald. “Cost-Share Accountability Act of 2025 (H.R. 359, 119th Congress).” https://civicherald.app/bills/119-hr-359. Congress.gov record as of Jul 13, 2026.

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