Mining Schools Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 2457 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2457 To require the Secretary of Energy to provide technology grants to strengthen domestic mining education, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 27, 2025 Mr. Owens (for himself, Mr. Costa, Ms. Maloy, Ms. Pettersen, and Mr. Moore of Utah) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Secretary of Energy to provide technology grants to strengthen domestic mining education, 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 ``Technology Grants to Strengthen Domestic Mining Education Act of 2025'' or the ``Mining Schools Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. TECHNOLOGY GRANTS TO STRENGTHEN DOMESTIC MINING EDUCATION. (a) Definitions.--In this section: (1) Board.--The term ``Board'' means the Mining Professional Development Advisory Board established by subsection (d)(1). (2) Institution of higher education.--The term ``institution of higher education'' has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). (3) Mining industry.--The term ``mining industry'' means the mining industry of the United States, consisting of the search for, and extraction, beneficiation, refining, smelting, processing, reprocessing, and recycling of, naturally occurring metal and nonmetal minerals from the earth. (4) Mining profession.--The term ``mining profession'' means the body of jobs directly relevant to-- (A) the exploration, planning, execution, and remediation of metal and nonmetal mining sites; and (B) the extraction, including the sep