H.R. 5631 · 119th Congress · Energy
Geothermal Energy Advancement Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Jun 2, 2026
Passed by voice vote.
Passed the House on June 2, 2026.
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 663
- IntroducedSep 30, 2025
- CommitteeMay 20, 2026
- Passed HouseJun 2, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 5
- 3 Democrats, 2 Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesHouse Committee on Natural Resources
- Lobbying
- At least 10
- organizations named it2025 Q3 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The bill promotes geothermal energy development on public lands by speeding permitting, funding oversight, and creating new bodies to manage it.
The bill promotes geothermal energy development on public lands by speeding permitting, funding oversight, and creating new bodies to manage it. It requires the Secretary of the Interior to approve, issue, or deny an application tied to a valid geothermal lease within 60 days of completing required Federal reviews, even when a civil action is pending, unless a Federal court vacates or enjoins the lease. It lets the Secretary recover the administrative and inspection costs of geothermal leasing and permitting through September 30, 2033. It directs the Secretary to appoint a Geothermal Ombudsman within the Bureau of Land Management and to establish a Geothermal Permitting Task Force headed by that ombudsman. It requires the Secretary to publish and rename an updated Gold Book of standard procedures for geothermal operations. It changes the royalty timing so the rate under Section 5(a)(1) runs for the 10-year period following a facility's in-service date rather than the first 10 years of production under the lease. It extends a NEPA review provision of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to geothermal exploration and development.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 10 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 34 quarterly reports filed by 3 lobbying firms and by 8 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Cobank; Fervo Energy Company; Corporate Energy Buyers Association (Fka Clean Energy Buyers Association); Zanskar Geothermal & Minerals, Inc.; Siff & Associates, PLLC (Obo the Mechanical Contractors Association of America). Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 5 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.