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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6320 
To improve the support, training, education, and compliance assistance re-
garding export licensing requirements provided to small businesses and 
medium-sized businesses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010 
Mr. COURTNEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the 
Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To improve the support, training, education, and compliance 
assistance regarding export licensing requirements pro-
vided to small businesses and medium-sized businesses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Small Business Export 
Support Act of 2010’’. 
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SEC. 2. EXPORT LICENSING COMPLIANCE ASSISTANCE BY 
COMMERCIAL SERVICE DISTRICT OFFICES. 
Section 2301 of the Export Enhancement Act of 
1988 (15 U.S.C. 4721) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(B) in paragraph (9), by striking the pe-
riod and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(10) providing small businesses and medium- 
sized businesses with support, training, education, 
and compliance assistance regarding export licensing 
requirements.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c)(3)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘(A)’’ before ‘‘The Sec-
retary shall’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraphs: 
‘‘(B) The Secretary shall assign export licensing 
compliance specialists to at least 20 district offices 
(or, at any time when there are 20 or fewer such of-
fices, to all such offices). Such export licensing com-
pliance specialists shall provide small businesses and 
medium-sized businesses with support, training, edu-
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cation, and compliance assistance regarding export 
licensing requirements. 
‘‘(C) In determining whether to assign an ex-
port licensing compliance specialist to a district of-
fice under subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall 
take into account the need for such assistance of the 
small businesses and medium-sized businesses in the 
region served by the office. In assessing such need, 
the Secretary shall consider such indicators of the 
small business and medium-sized business industrial 
base in the region as the Secretary considers appro-
priate, including the number of small businesses and 
medium-sized businesses in the region that have 
been issued export licenses.’’. 
SEC. 3. ANNUAL REVIEWS OF COMMERCIAL SERVICE DIS-
TRICT OFFICE STAFFING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 
end of each fiscal year that ends after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall com-
plete a review, with respect to such fiscal year, of the level 
of staffing at each district office of the United States and 
Foreign Commercial Service established under section 
2301(c)(3)(A) of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 
(15 U.S.C. 4721(c)(3)(A)) to determine, for the fiscal year 
that begins after the date of the completion of the review, 
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the level of staffing at each office that will enable such 
office to effectively serve small businesses and medium- 
sized businesses. 
(b) ELEMENTS OF REVIEW.—A review under sub-
section (a) shall include with respect to each district of-
fice— 
(1) a determination of the number of staff em-
ployed in the office during the fiscal year in which 
the review is completed and during each of the pre-
ceding 9 fiscal years; 
(2) a determination of the need of small busi-
nesses and medium-sized businesses in the region 
served by the office for the services and assistance 
described in section 2301(b) of the Export Enhance-
ment Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4721(b)), as indicated 
by factors including— 
(A) the volume of requests made by small 
businesses and medium-sized businesses to the 
office for such services and assistance; 
(B) the number of small businesses and 
medium-sized businesses in the region that have 
been issued export licenses; and 
(C) such other indicators of the small busi-
ness and medium-sized business industrial base 
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