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Bolivia's Ministerio de Hidrocarburos y Energía published the framework of the Proyecto de Ley del Litio on 25 December 2025, with President Rodrigo Paz formally proposing the 121-article bill in January 2026. The law is the first post-Ley 928 (1992) national-level lithium statutory regime: it delimits a sub-zone of the Salar de Uyuni as a heritage tourism-reserve to protect local livelihoods, reorients the remaining salar areas for industrial production via an international bidding process open to private capital acting independently or in mixed-JV alliances with state-owned YLB, and provides the statutory anchor for Congressional ratification of the pending YLB-Uranium One and YLB-Hong Kong CBC contracts. As a bill (Proyecto de Ley) it was advancing through committee in the Cámara de Diputados as of early 2026, with a national consensus summit scheduled for mid-2026 to socialise the text before full plenary passage.

Decreto Supremo Nº 5503, signed 17 December 2025 by the Paz administration on its first business day in office, declares a national Economic, Financial, Energy and Social Emergency and enacts a 120-article comprehensive stabilization package. Headline measures: a 15-year fiscal and legal stability guarantee for "strategic" foreign investment in mining, hydrocarbons, energy, agro-industry, infrastructure and export-manufacturing; a fast-track 30-day investment-approval procedure; 0% import tariff on industrial machinery, equipment and key inputs through 2026; accelerated depreciation for 2026 fixed-asset acquisitions (excluding extractive mining and hydrocarbons); discretionary write-off of pre-October 2025 tax interest and penalties; and elimination of fuel subsidies (with a 6-month transition price freeze). The decree restructures Bolivia's investment-incentive architecture and signals a pivot from the Morales/Arce-era resource nationalism toward foreign-capital attraction — directly material for the Salar de Uyuni lithium pipeline (CBC, Uranium One, Citic Guoan tenders).

Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB), Bolivia's state lithium SOE, signed a contract in September 2024 with Uranium One Group — a subsidiary of Russia's Rosatom state nuclear corporation — for the design, construction, and initial operation of an industrial direct-lithium-extraction (DLE) carbonation plant at Salar de Uyuni, with initial capacity of 14,000 t/yr lithium carbonate (expandable to 25,000–45,000 t/yr), representing a total investment exceeding USD 970 million and a 51%/49% profit-split in Bolivia's favour. The contract was approved by Bolivia's Comisión de Economía Plural in February 2025 amid corruption allegations, then suspended by parliamentary motion on 14 February 2025; a Bolivian court issued a further precautionary suspension order on 27 May 2025 on human-rights, environmental, and Mother Earth rights grounds, while the Arce government continued to insist on legislative ratification through at least 29 May 2025.