Bioindustrial Scale-Up for Supply Chains and Energy Resiliency Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7936 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7936 To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to support the development, demonstration, and commercial application of biotechnology products to increase energy resiliency, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 16, 2026 Mr. Baird (for himself, Ms. Houlahan, Mrs. Bice, and Mr. Khanna) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to support the development, demonstration, and commercial application of biotechnology products to increase energy resiliency, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Bioindustrial Scale-Up for Supply Chains and Energy Resiliency Act of 2026''. SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress that-- (1) the biggest roadblock for United States biotechnology innovators to commercialization is proving that their products and processes can scale, thus showing investors a path to financial return; (2) the United States faces several main challenges to securing the broad range of infrastructure needed for the breadth of products that biotechnology can make, which are that-- (A) the United States lacks sufficient biomanufacturing capacity, including because researchers are generating new products faster than manufacturing capacity is increasing and building new facilities is expensive and time-consuming; and (B) biomanufacturing technologies of the future have yet to mature into routine commercial applications, as current biomanufacturing facilities are generally optimized for 1