Good Energy Jobs Act of 2026

This bill would add new labor and community requirements to financial assistance from the Department of Energy, including grants, loans, and loan guarantees. Workers on assisted construction and repair projects would have to be paid local prevailing wages, and at least 15 percent of labor hours would have to be done by registered apprentices. Recipients would have to certify they will stay neutral on employee union organizing, and contractors on Department facility work costing over $1,000,000 would have to use project labor agreements. Applicants would have to submit community benefits plans, commit to manufacturing research products substantially in the United States, and could not move that manufacturing overseas without approval. The Department would aim to direct at least 40 percent of assistance from listed programs to entities committing benefits to small or disadvantaged communities.

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Sponsors

• Paul Tonko Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors