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Bureau of Industry and Security License Administration Enhancement Act
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Bureau of Industry and Security License Administration Enhancement Act This bill revises certain processes used by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to review applications for export licenses. Specifically, the bill requires BIS to administer any export control license or other authorization considered pursuant to an is informed letter or similar guidance or communication sent to a U.S. or foreign person in the same way as the standard interagency process. (An is informed letter notifies individual companies and universities of supplemental license requirements and requires compliance with the letter's license requirements. BIS guidance states that noncompliance with a letter is treated the same as noncompliance with any other license requirement under the Export Administration Regulations.) The bill requires any is informed letter or similar guidance or communication to be terminated within 60 days after issuing a related license or other authorization unless BIS publishes a regulation that provides for the parameters of the letter or guidance or publishes the communication in the Federal Register. BIS must establish standards and factors that licensing officers should use when applying a presumption-of-denial standard to license applications. BIS must submit these factors to Congress prior to publishing them in the Federal Register. The bill expands the requirements for BIS technical advisory committees, including by requiring BIS to establish committees for specified topics. BIS must review (and report to Congress on) the implementation of a 2025 interim final rule, which provides additional due diligence procedures regarding advanced computing integrated circuits.
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2026 · third_quarter · Trade (domestic/foreign)
Issues related to digital trade, tariffs, trade agreements, and digital services taxes; Issues related to export controls, critical minerals, economic security, remote access security, sanctions, outbound investment reviews, and AI Diffusion; Issues related to the African Growth and Opportunity Act; S. 4784/H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027; S. 3519/H.R. 2683 - Remote Access Security Act; S. 1705/H.R. 3447 - Chip Security Act; H.R. 6875/S. 4456 - AI OVERWATCH Act; H.R. 8170/S. 4281 - MATCH Act; H.R. 7003/S. 5379 - BIS STRENGTH Act; H.R. 8284/S. 4835 - BIS License Administration Enhancement Act; H.R. 8289 - BIS Licensing Efficiency Act; H.R. 8288 - Strengthening Export Controls Compliance Act; H.R. 4505 - Export Controls Enforcement Act; H.R. 6996 - Full AI Stack Export Promotion Act; H.R. 8283 - Deterring American AI Model Theft Act; S. 5252 - BLADE Act; H.R. 7037 - DOMINANCE Act; S. 3399 - Digital Trade Promotion Act of 2025; H.R. 5334/S.5025 - Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026; S. 429 - STRATEGIC Minerals Act.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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Client expense: $720,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Natl Economic Council (NEC), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
2026 · second_quarter · Banking
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H.R. 6331, Addressing Dangerous Vulnerabilities in Exports and Research to Strategic Adversaries, Regimes, and Industrial Entities of Security Concern (ADVERSARIES) Act, all provisions. H.R. 6624, Biological Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2025, all provisions. H.R. 6875, AI OVERWATCH Act, all provisions. H.R. 6996, Full AI Stack Export Promotion Act, all provisions. H.R. 7003, BIS Strategic Talent Recruitment to Enhance National Guardrails for Technological Handling (STRENGTH) Act, all provisions. H.R. 7184, Preventing Rogue Equipment for Synthetic Substances (PRESS) Act, all provisions. H.R. 7552, CBW Fentanyl Act, all provisions. H.R. 8036, Interagency Coordination in Export Controls Act, all provisions. H.R. 8106, Rosatom Energy Sanctions Compliance and Unified Enforcement (RESCUE) Act, all provisions. H.R. 8169, Export Control Enforcement and Enhancement Act, all provisions. H.R. 8170, Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (MATCH) Act, all provisions. H.R. 8202, ECRA Statute of Limitations Extension, all provisions. H.R. 8283, Deterring American AI Model Theft Act of 2026, all provisions. H.R. 8284, Bureau of Industry and Security License Administration Enhancement Act, all provisions. S. 1473, Stop Stealing our Chips Act, all provisions. S. 1490, Global Hunt for Offshore Smuggling and Trafficking (GHOST) Act of 2025, all provisions. S. 1705, Chip Security Act, all provisions. S. 1889, Solidify Iran Sanctions Act (SISA), all provisions. S. 2293, Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025, all provisions. S. 2677, Counterfeit Notification Act, all provisions. S. 2904, Sanctioning Harbors and Dodgers of Western Sanctions (SHADOW) Fleets Act, all provisions. S. 3172, A bill to repeal certain Acts that impose sanctions upon Syria, all provisions. S. 3452, Biological Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2025, all provisions. S. 3519, Remote Access Security Act, all provisions. S. 4281, Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (MATCH) Act, all provisions. S. 4446, Preventing Rogue Equipment for Synthetic Substances (PRESS) Act, all provisions. S. 4456, AI OVERWATCH Act, all provisions. S. 4723, Eliminate PRC Organized Crime Act, all provisions. S. 4835, Bureau of Industry and Security License Administration Enhancement Act, all provisions. S. 556, Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025, all provisions. S. 63, CBW Fentanyl Act, all provisions. Issues Related to American Economic Statecraft; Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism; Captagon, Fentanyl, and International Narcotics Production and Trafficking; China-Related Tax and Investment Authorities; Chinese Access to U.S. Capital Markets and Advanced Technology; DIB Capacity Tax Incentives; Evaluating Sanctions, Export Controls, and AML Regulations, Regulatory Authorities, and Legislative Authorities; Expansion of CFIUS Authorities; Foreign Investment in Latin America; Hezbollah, Iran, and IRGC Funding Streams; Implementation and Oversight of the Corporate Transparency Act; Implementation and Oversight of the Countering Americas Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA); Implementation and Oversight of the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act; Iranian Oil Sanctions Enforcement; Muslim Brotherhood Funding Streams; National Security-Related Foreign Investment Screening Processes for U.S. Allies; Tax-Exempt Status of Organizations with Ties to U.S. Adversaries; U.S. Adversaries Illicit Finance Activities; U.S. Adversaries Sanctions Evasion Schemes; U.S. Anti-Corruption Sanctions and Strategy; U.S. China Sanctions Policy; U.S. Cuba Sanctions Policy; U.S. Export Control Policy; U.S. Houthi Sanctions Policy; U.S. International Sovereign Debt Policy; U.S. Investment Screening and Security; U.S. Iran Sanctions Policy; U.S. Iraq Sanctions Policy; U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Sanctions Policy; U.S. Nicaragua Sanctions Policy; U.S. Oman Sanctions; U.S. Polisario Front Sanctions Policy; U.S. Russia Oil Waivers and Sanctions Policy; U.S. Sanctions Authorities, Implementation, Enforcement, Resourcing, and Policy; U.S. Syria Sanctions Policy; U.S. Terror Finance Policy; and U.S. Turkey Sanctions Policy (no bill).
Client expense: $240,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE