Maintaining American Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency Act

Maintaining American Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency Act

This bill requires the Department of Commerce to provide certain information to Congress on export license applications. 

Commerce must, every 90 days, report to Congress on license applications, enforcement actions, and other requests for authorization for the export, reexport, release, and in-country transfer of items controlled under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018. This report must include specified information, such as the name of the entity submitting the application, where the item is being exported, the decision with respect to the license application or authorization, and information on compliance with U.S. export controls.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6614 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6614

 To amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 relating to licensing 
                             transparency.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 6, 2023

   Mr. Jackson of Texas (for himself and Mr. McCaul) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 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 90 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this subsection, and not less frequently than 
        every 90 days thereafter, the Secretary, shall submit to the 
        appropriate congressional committees a report on license 
        applications, enforcement actions, 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 90-day period, the 
        following:
                    ``(A) For each license application or other request 
                for authorization--
                            ``(i) the name of the entity submitting the 
                        application (both parent company as well as the 
                        subsidiary directly involved), a brief 
                        description of the item (including the Export 
                        Control Classification Number (ECCN) and level 
                        of 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; and
                            ``(ii) the date, location, and result of 
                        site inspections, monitoring, and enforcement 
                        actions to ensure compliance with United States 
                        export controls.
                    ``(B) Aggregate statistics on all license 
                applications and other requests for authorization as 
                described in subparagraph (A).
                    ``(C) For each license denial in which items in 
                category EAR99 constitute at least 50 percent of the 
                financial value of the license application, a list 
                detailing what specific items are being denied a 
                license.
            ``(3) Definitions.--In this section--
                    ``(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 
                included on--
                            ``(i) the list maintained and set forth in 
                        Supplement No. 4 to part 744 of the Export 
                        Administration Regulations;
                            ``(ii) the list maintained and set forth in 
                        Supplement No. 7 to part 744 of the Export 
                        Administration Regulations; or
                            ``(iii) the list maintained and published 
                        under section 1260H of the William M. (Mac) 
                        Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act 
                        for Fiscal Year 2021 (10 U.S.C. 113 note).''.
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