HR 755
Passed a chamber
Requires a single combined Critical Minerals and Materials List that covers both critical minerals and critical materials, with updates due within 45 days of each designation change.
Official title: Critical Mineral Consistency Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
28-JAN-2025
Referred
28-JAN-2025
Approved by committee
11-FEB-2026
Reported
24-FEB-2026
On the calendar
24-FEB-2026
Passed
03-MAR-2026
Senate
Received
04-MAR-2026
- Requires the Secretary to publish a Critical Minerals and Materials List within 45 days of enactment, covering minerals designated as critical and materials the Secretary of Energy has determined to be critical.
- Requires the list to be updated within 45 days after either official changes a critical mineral or critical material designation, and directs the two officials to coordinate publication timing where practicable.
- Directs federal departments and agencies that have incorporated the critical mineral or critical material definition to use the most recently published version of the list.
- Amends Section 7002 of the Energy Act of 2020 by adding the words "minerals or materials" to subsection (c)(4)(C) and redesignating subsection (o) as subsection (p).
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (28-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 03-MAR-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Natural Resources Committee (House)
Energy
■ 7 R■ 6 D
7 Republicans
6 Democrats