IIB 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1316 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 6, 2025 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs 
AN ACT 
To amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 relating 
to licensing transparency. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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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 appro-
priations, 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 para-
graph (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 enti-
ty submitting the application, a brief descrip-
tion of the item (including the Export Control 
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Classification Number (ECCN) and reason for 
control, if applicable), the name of the end-user, 
the end-user’s location, a value estimate, deci-
sion 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 ap-
plications and other requests for authorization 
as described in subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(3) CONFIDENTIALITY
OF
INFORMATION.— 
The information required to be provided in the re-
ports required by this subsection (other than the in-
formation required by paragraph (2)(C)) shall be ex-
empt from public disclosure pursuant to section 
1761(h)(1). 
‘‘(4) PROTECTING
ENFORCEMENT
INFORMA-
TION.—In preparing and submitting a report under 
subsection (e), the Secretary shall ensure that infor-
mation 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— 
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‘‘(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.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 5, 2025. 
Attest: 
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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