119-hr4233

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H.R. 4233 Referred in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4233

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 September 3, 2025

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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 AN ACT

 To modify provisions relating to defense trade and cooperation among 
 Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

 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 ``AUKUS Reform for Military 
Optimization and Review Act'' or the ``ARMOR Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

 It is the sense of Congress that the President should work with the 
governments of the United Kingdom and Australia to formulate policy 
that would address matters of extraterritoriality, which may present 
inefficiencies in defense repair, maintenance, and sustainment among 
Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States for defense 
articles and services not on the excluded technology list.

SEC. 3. MODIFICATION OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO DEFENSE TRADE AND 
 COOPERATION AMONG AUSTRALIA, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND THE 
 UNITED STATES.

    (a) Expansion of Expedited Review of Export Licenses.--

    (1) In general.--

Section 1344
            (c) of the National Defense 
 Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (22 U.S.C. 10423
            (c) ) is 
 amended--
        (A) by striking ``classified and unclassified 
 items, and the process'' and inserting ``classified and 
 unclassified items, and apply to all exports and 
 transfers (including reexports, retransfers, temporary 
 imports, and brokering activities),wholly within or 
 between the geographic territory of Australia, Canada, 
 the United Kingdom, or the United States, and the 
 process''; and
        (B) in paragraph

    (1) , by striking ``Any licensing 
 application to export defense articles and services'' 
 and inserting ``Any licensing application to transfer, 
 export, reexport, retransfer, temporarily import, or 
 broker defense articles and services wholly within or 
 between the geographic territory of Australia, Canada, 
 the United Kingdom, or the United States''.

    (2) Report.--
        (A) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the 
 date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 
 thereafter for 15 years, the President shall submit to 
 the Chairpersons and Ranking Members of the appropriate 
 congressional committees, the Speaker of the House of 
 Representatives, and the Majority Leader of the Senate 
 a report with respect to the use of the expedited 
 review process established by 

section 1344 of the 
 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 
 (22 U.S.C. 10423), that includes the following:
            (i) An update on the progress made toward 
 implementing such expedited review process.
            (ii) The number of licenses issued.
            (iii) A list of each principal applicant 
 issued a license.
            (iv) A list of defense articles and 
 services for which a license was issued.
        (B) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--
 In this paragraph, the term ``appropriate congressional 
 committees'' means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
 the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
 Foreign Relations of the Senate.

    (b) Clarification of Congressional Notification Requirement.--

Section 38
            (l) (2) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778
            (l) (2) ) 
is amended by striking ``the United States, the United Kingdom, and 
Australia.'' and inserting ``the United States, the United Kingdom, and 
Australia. The congressional notification requirements of subsections
            (c) and
            (d) of 

section 36 shall not apply with respect to the export or 
transfer of defense articles or defense services subject to the 
exemption described in this paragraph.''
            (c) Requirement To Review Excluded Technologies List.--

    (1) In general.--The Secretary of State, in consultation 
 with the Secretary of Defense, shall review, annually for the 
 covered period, and every 3 years thereafter, Supplement No. 2 
 to part 126 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations 
 (parts 120-130 of title 22, Code of Federal 
 Regulations)(commonly known at the ``Excluded Technologies 
 List'') to ensure inclusion of only those items required by 
 statute, or otherwise determined by such Secretaries, to 
 require continued licensing review for national security 
 reasons.

    (2) Covered period defined.--In this subsection, the term 
 ``covered period'' means the 5-year period beginning 180 days 
 after the date of the enactment of this Act.

 Passed the House of Representatives September 2, 2025.

 Attest:

 KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

 Clerk.