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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5955 
To prohibit the collection and obligation of any fee collected in connection 
with an export license and require the return of such fee to the holder 
of the license, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 7, 2025 
Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE (for herself and Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To prohibit the collection and obligation of any fee collected 
in connection with an export license and require the 
return of such fee to the holder of the license, and 
for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘BIS License Fee Pro-
hibition Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution di-
rectly states, ‘‘No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Arti-
cles exported from any State’’. 
(2) Section 1756 of the Export Control Reform 
Act of 2018 (subtitle B of title XVII of the John S. 
McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fis-
cal Year 2019; 50 U.S.C. 4815) states, ‘‘No fee may 
be charged in connection with the submission, proc-
essing, or consideration of any application for a li-
cense or other authorization or other request made 
in connection with any regulation in effect under the 
authority of this part.’’. 
(3) The placement of export controls on dual- 
use technologies to the People’s Republic of China 
should be based on assessments of national security 
and economic competitiveness. 
SEC. 3. LICENSE FEES PROHIBITED. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—No amount may be collected by 
the Federal Government after the date of the enactment 
of this Act in the form of revenue-sharing, fees, or any 
other monetary arrangement subject to or conditional 
upon which a person receives or maintains the ability to 
benefit from a license or other authorization under the Ex-
port Control Reform Act of 2018. 
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(b) LIMITATION.—No amount collected before, on, or 
after such date of enactment in any manner described in 
subsection (a) may be obligated or expended for any pur-
pose other than to be returned to the holder of the license 
under subsection (c). 
(c) COMPENSATION.—Not later than 30 days after 
such date of enactment, the Secretary of Commerce shall 
return to or pay the holder of each applicable license or 
other authorization with respect to which any amount was 
collected before or on the date of such enactment in any 
manner described in subsection (a) the full amount so col-
lected. 
(d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion may be construed to authorize the implementation of 
any export fee on semiconductors or otherwise indicate 
that such fee is consistent with the requirements of the 
Constitution or of section 1756 of the Export Control Re-
form Act of 2018 (subtitle B of title XVII of the John 
S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2019; 50 U.S.C. 4815). 
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