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Maintaining American Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency Act
Summary
This bill requires the Secretary of Commerce to submit annual reports to Congress on export control license applications and end-use checks for items exported to certain entities in restricted countries. The report must include details on each license application or authorization request, including the applicant name, item description with export control classification, intended end-user, value estimate, decision outcome, and submission date. The report must also include information on end-use checks conducted to verify compliance with US export controls and aggregate statistics on all applications and requests. Most information in the report will be confidential and protected from public disclosure, except for aggregate statistics, and information that could jeopardize ongoing enforcement investigations will be withheld.
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Sponsor (1)
2 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Ronny Jackson’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- DEASON CAPITAL SERVICES $13,200
- ALBERS AEROSPACE $10,900
- HILLWOOD $9,100
- GTN TECHNICAL STAFFING $7,567
- 1A AUTO $6,850
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Actions (16)
- Aug 19, 2025 Became Public Law No: 119-34.
- Aug 19, 2025 Signed by President.
- Aug 15, 2025 Presented to President. · house
- Jul 23, 2025 Message on Senate action sent to the House. · senate
- Jul 22, 2025 Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4573) · senate
- Jul 22, 2025 Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
- Jul 22, 2025 Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. · senate
- May 6, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. · senate
- May 5, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
- May 5, 2025 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1834-1835) · house
- May 5, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1834-1835)
- May 5, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1316. · house
- May 5, 2025 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1834-1836) · house
- May 5, 2025 Mr. Mast moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. · house
- Feb 13, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. · house
- Feb 13, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
An Act
To amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 relating to licensing transparency.
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 “Maintaining American Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency Act”.
SEC. 2. LICENSING TRANSPARENCY. Section 1756 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4815) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(e) Report.—
“(1) In general.—Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this subsection, and not less frequently than annually thereafter, the Secretary, shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on end-use checks related to, as well as license applications and other requests for authorization for the export, reexport, release, and in-country transfer of items controlled under this part to covered entities.
“(2) Elements.—The report required by paragraph (1) shall include, with respect to the preceding one year-period, the following:
“(A) For each license application or other request for authorization, the name of the entity submitting the application, a brief description of the item (including the Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) and reason for control, if applicable), the name of the end-user, the end- user’s location, a value estimate, decision with respect to the license application or authorization, and the date of submission.
“(B) The date, location, and result of any end-use checks, to ensure compliance with United States export controls.
“(C) Aggregate statistics on all license applications and other requests for authorization as described in subparagraph
(A).
“(3) Confidentiality of information.—The information required to be provided in the reports required by this subsection (other than the information required by paragraph (2)(C)) shall be exempt from public disclosure pursuant to section 1761(h)(1).
“(4) Protecting enforcement information.—In preparing and submitting a report under subsection (e), the Secretary shall ensure that information that may jeopardize an ongoing investigation shall not be included in the contents of the report.
“(5) Definitions.—In this subsection—
“(A) the term ‘appropriate congressional committees’ means—
“(i) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
“(ii) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and
“(B) the term ‘covered entity’ means any entity that—
“(i) is located in a country listed in Country Group D:5 under Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations; and
“(ii) is included on—
“(I) the list maintained and set forth in Supplement No. 4 to part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations; or
“(II) the list maintained and set forth in Supplement No. 7 to part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations.”.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.
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