119-hr1316

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1316 Enrolled Bill

    (ENR) ]

 H.R.1316

 One Hundred Nineteenth Congress

 of the

 United States of America

 AT THE FIRST SESSION

 Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
 the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-five

 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
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            (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.