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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1167
To prohibit the procurement of solar panels manufactured or assembled
in the People’s Republic of China.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY10, 2025
Mr. G
IMENEZintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To prohibit the procurement of solar panels manufactured
or assembled in the People’s Republic of China.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Keep China Out of 4
Solar Energy Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PROCUREMENT OF SOLAR PAN-6
ELS FROM COVERED FOREIGN ENTITIES. 7
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 8
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Of-9
fice of Management and Budget, in consultation with the 10
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Administrator of General Services, shall develop standards 1
and guidelines for executive agencies to— 2
(1) prohibit Federal funds from being awarded 3
by contract, subcontract, grant, or subgrant for the 4
procurement of solar panels that are manufactured 5
or assembled by a covered entity; and 6
(2) prohibit the use of Government-issued pur-7
chase cards to purchase solar panels that are manu-8
factured or assembled by a covered entity. 9
(b) A
MENDMENT OF FEDERALACQUISITIONREGU-10
LATION.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the 11
enactment of this Act, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory 12
Council shall amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation 13
to implement the prohibition established pursuant to sub-14
section (a)(1) with respect to Federal contracts and sub-15
contracts. 16
SEC. 3. EXEMPTION WAIVER. 17
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The head of an executive agency 18
may obtain a waiver from the prohibition implemented 19
pursuant to section 2 if the agency head certifies to the 20
Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Secu-21
rity that the covered entity is the only viable source for 22
the solar panels and the Secretary of State and the Sec-23
retary of Homeland Security jointly approve the waiver 24
request. 25
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(b) NOTIFICATIONREQUIREMENTS.— 1
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The head of an agency re-2
questing a waiver under this section shall notify the 3
Director of the Office of Management and Budget of 4
the request. The Director of the Office of Manage-5
ment and Budget shall submit to the appropriate 6
congressional committees a quarterly report listing 7
requests listing under subsection (a), including 8
whether each such request was approved or rejected. 9
(2) A
PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -10
TEES.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘appropriate 11
congressional committees’’ means— 12
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations 13
and the Committee on Homeland Security and 14
Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and 15
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 16
Committee on Homeland Security, and the 17
Committee on Oversight and Government Re-18
form of the House of Representatives. 19
SEC. 4. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT. 20
Not later than 275 days after the date of the enact-21
ment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 22
States shall submit to Congress a report on the amount 23
of solar panels procured by Federal departments and 24
agencies from covered entities. 25
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SEC. 5. STUDY. 1
(a) I
NDEPENDENT STUDY.—Not later than one year 2
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 3
of the Office of Management and Budget shall seek to 4
enter into a contract with a federally funded research and 5
development center under which the center will conduct 6
a study of— 7
(1) the current and future domestic market of 8
solar panel production; 9
(2) the ability of the solar panel domestic mar-10
ket to keep pace with technological advancements 11
across the industry; and 12
(3) the current global supply chain and work-13
force involved with solar panel production. 14
(b) S
UBMISSION TOCONGRESS.—Not later than 30 15
days after the date on which the Director of the Office 16
of Management and Budget receives the study under sub-17
section (b), the Director shall submit the study to— 18
(1) the Committee on Homeland Security and 19
Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Energy 20
and Natural Resources of the Senate; and 21
(2) the Committee on Homeland Security, the 22
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 23
and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 24
House of Representatives. 25
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SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 1
In this Act: 2
(1) C
OVERED ENTITY.—The term ‘‘covered en-3
tity’’ means any entity domiciled in the People’s Re-4
public of China or subject to influence or control by 5
the Government of the People Republic of China or 6
the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of 7
China, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland 8
Security. 9
(2) E
XECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘executive 10
agency’’ has the meaning given the term in section 11
133 of title 41, United States Code. 12
(3) S
OLAR PANEL.—The term ‘‘solar panel’’ 13
means crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells and 14
modules. 15
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