The bill wants to let a part of the U.S. government, called the Department of the Interior, ask people who use Earth's heat for energy to pay back some of the money the government spends to help manage their projects. This means if someone wants to use hot water from inside the Earth to make power, they might have to help the government pay some of the costs of taking care of this process.

The bill lets a government department charge for help in watching over companies using hot water and steam from the ground, making sure everything is fair and good until 2031. They need to check how it's working after a few years and report on it.