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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 744 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 relating to licensing |
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| 6 | 6 | | transparency. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY26, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. B |
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| 10 | 10 | | ANKS(for himself and Mr. WARNER) introduced the following bill; which |
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| 11 | 11 | | was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and |
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| 12 | 12 | | Urban Affairs |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 relating |
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| 15 | 15 | | to licensing transparency. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Maintaining American 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Act’’. 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. LICENSING TRANSPARENCY. 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Section 1756 of the Export Control Reform Act of 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4815) is amended by adding at the end 9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | the following: 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | ‘‘(e) REPORT.— 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 31 | 31 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than one year 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | after the date of the enactment of this subsection, 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | and not less frequently than annually thereafter, the 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Secretary, shall, subject to the availability of appro-5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | priations, submit to the appropriate congressional 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | committees a report on license applications, enforce-7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ment actions, and other requests for authorization 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | for the export, reexport, release, and in-country 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | transfer of items controlled under this part to cov-10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ered entities. 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ‘‘(2) E |
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| 42 | 42 | | LEMENTS.—The report required by para-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | graph (1) shall include, with respect to the one year 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | preceding the previous one-year period, the fol-14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | lowing: 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(A) For each license application or other 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | request for authorization, the name of the enti-17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ty submitting the application, a brief descrip-18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | tion of the item (including the Export Control 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | Classification Number (ECCN) and level of 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | control, if applicable), the name of the end-user, 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | the end-user’s location, a value estimate, deci-22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | sion with respect to the license application or 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | authorization, and the date of submission. 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ‘‘(B) The date, location, and result of any 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | related enforcement activities, such as end-use 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | checks, to ensure compliance with United 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | States export controls. 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | ‘‘(C) Aggregate statistics on all license ap-5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | plications and other requests for authorization 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | as described in subparagraph (A). 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(3) C |
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| 66 | 66 | | ONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION .— 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | The information required to be provided in the re-9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ports required by this subsection (other than the in-10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | formation required by paragraph (2)(C)) shall be ex-11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | empt from public disclosure pursuant to section 12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | 1761(h)(1). 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ‘‘(4) D |
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| 73 | 73 | | EFINITIONS.—In this subsection— 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(A) the term ‘appropriate congressional 15 |
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| 75 | 75 | | committees’ means— 16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ‘‘(i) the Committee on Foreign Affairs 17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | of the House of Representatives; and 18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ‘‘(ii) the Committee on Banking, 19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | and 21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | ‘‘(B) the term ‘covered entity’ means any 22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | entity that— 23 |
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| 83 | 83 | | ‘‘(i) is located or operating in a coun-24 |
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| 84 | 84 | | try listed in Country Group D:5 under 25 |
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| 88 | 88 | | Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of title 15, 1 |
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| 89 | 89 | | Code of Federal Regulations; and 2 |
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| 90 | 90 | | ‘‘(ii) is included on— 3 |
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| 91 | 91 | | ‘‘(I) the list maintained and set 4 |
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| 92 | 92 | | forth in Supplement No. 4 to part 5 |
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| 93 | 93 | | 744 of the Export Administration 6 |
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| 94 | 94 | | Regulations; or 7 |
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| 95 | 95 | | ‘‘(II) the list maintained and set 8 |
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| 96 | 96 | | forth in Supplement No. 7 to part 9 |
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| 97 | 97 | | 744 of the Export Administration 10 |
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| 98 | 98 | | Regulations.’’. 11 |
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