- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 24, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 6168. Ms. WARREN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of division A, add the following:
TITLE XVII—ENFORCEMENT OF EXPORT CONTROLS
SEC. 1701. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the “Improving Export
Enforcement Act of 2026”.
SEC. 1702. REQUIREMENT TO MAINTAIN EXPORT COMPLIANCE PROGRAM.
Section 1760(a)(2) of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018
(50 U.S.C. 4819(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
“(K) No person may fail to establish, maintain, or enforce
an export compliance program required of that person by the
Export Administration Regulations, or any order, license, or
authorization issued thereunder.”.
SEC. 1703. EXPORT COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS.
(a) In General.—The Secretary of Commerce may prescribe
regulations requiring persons engaging in covered export
activities to establish, maintain, and enforce export
compliance programs.
(b) Elements.—The Secretary may require, in regulations
prescribed under subsection (a), that an export compliance
program include—
(1) the development of internal policies, procedures, and
controls with respect to compliance with export controls;
(2) a risk assessment and export authorization process,
including screening and resolution of abnormal circumstances
that indicate that an item may be destined for an
unauthorized end-use, end-user, or destination;
(3) the designation of an export compliance officer or
individual responsible for administering the program;
(4) a program for providing ongoing training to employees
with respect to compliance with export controls; and
(5) an audit function to test the program.
(c) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) Covered export activities.—The term “covered export
activities” includes, at a minimum, activities subject to
the Export Administration Regulations, or any order, license,
or authorization issued thereunder, that involve—
(A) items that the Secretary determines present a
heightened risk of diversion, evasion, unauthorized export,
unauthorized reexport, or unauthorized in-country transfer;
(B) destinations that the Secretary determines present a
heightened risk of diversion, evasion, unauthorized export,
unauthorized reexport, or unauthorized in-country transfer;
and
(C) high-volume exports, reexports, or in-country transfers
of advanced computing integrated circuits, computers,
electronic assemblies, or related products classified under
Export Control Classification Numbers 3A090, 4A090, related
.z numbers, or any functionally equivalent item.
(2) Export administration regulations; export; in-country
transfer; item; reexport.—The terms “Export Administration
Regulations”, “export”, “in-country transfer”, “item”,
and “reexport” have the meanings given those terms in
section 1742 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50
U.S.C. 4801).
SEC. 1704. APPLICABILITY.
This title, and the amendments made by this title, shall
apply with respect to a violation of the Export Control
Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4801 et seq.), or any
regulation, order, or license issued under that Act,
committed on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.