PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Bill · HR

H.R. 5905 (115th)

Department of Energy Science and Innovation Act of 2018

openUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

22 May 2018

Last action

Status

Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 496.

Sponsors

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

7 April 2025

Summary

Department of Energy Science and Innovation Act of 2018 This bill authorizes various scientific research activities, programs, and initiatives in the Department of Energy (DOE). The bill states that the mission of DOE's Office of Science shall be the delivery of scientific discoveries, capabilities, and major scientific tools to transform the understanding of nature and to advance energy, economic, and national security. The bill provides statutory authority for the Office of Science's basic energy sciences program, construction and operation of user facilities, Advanced Scientific Computing Research program, and Science Laboratories Infrastructure Program. DOE shall provide for specified upgrades to or construction of basic energy sciences research infrastructure. DOE shall carry out a Solar Fuels Research Initiative and a Electricity Storage Research Initiative. The Office of Science shall: carry out specified research programs; ensure the access of U.S. researchers to the most advanced accelerator facilities and research capabilities in the world, including the Large Hadron Collider; and assess the potential of fusion energy projects supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

9 official files

Placed on Calendar Senate (text)

View fileDownload file

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.