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The bill provides businesses and regulated parties with greater legal certainty and finality by imposing a 10-year limit on enforcement, but it risks reducing the government's ability to deter, investigate, and recover from long-running or late-discovered violations and may shift agency investigative behavior.
Exporters, government contractors, and regulated financial institutions gain clearer finality because civil penalties and criminal prosecutions for covered violations must be brought within 10 years, reducing long-term legal and business uncertainty.
Taxpayers and national security interests may be harmed because a 10-year cap could prevent enforcement of complex or concealed export-control violations that are discovered late, weakening deterrence against serious misconduct.
Taxpayers and regulated entities could receive smaller recoveries because limiting civil enforcement to 10 years may constrain the government's ability to recover forfeitures or penalties tied to long-running or obscured violations.
Government agencies, government contractors, and state governments could face changed incentives and resource pressures because defining issuance of a charging letter as the start of a civil case may push agencies to formalize charges earlier or alter investigative timing.
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Imposes a 10‑year statute of limitations on civil and criminal enforcement of specified export‑control violations, measured from the date of the violation.
Introduced April 6, 2026 by Ryan Mackenzie · Last progress April 6, 2026
Adds a 10-year statute of limitations for both civil and criminal enforcement of export-control violations under the cited export-control provision. Civil enforcement actions (including fines, penalties, or forfeitures) must be commenced within 10 years of the violation (and commencement includes issuing a charging letter); criminal prosecutions must be initiated by filing an indictment or information within 10 years of the latest violation date. The change only sets time limits and does not alter the substantive definitions of prohibited conduct.