# 119-s-3519: Remote Access Security Act

119-s-3519, Remote Access Security Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. McCormick, David [R-PA] (R-PA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-06).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-3519
- Congress: 119
- Title: Remote Access Security Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-12-17
- Sponsor: Sen. McCormick, David [R-PA] (R-PA)
- Cosponsors: 6
- Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-08-06

## Summary

**Creates a new export-control category for _remote access to controlled items_.** This bill would let the Commerce Department treat access to U.S.-controlled technologies over foreign cloud services as an export and set rules for licensing, enforcement, and penalties when foreign "persons of concern" pose national security or human-rights risks. - Cloud providers and technology firms would face new licensing and reporting expectations and a public review process. The Secretary must publish a public report within one year and hold a roundtable to gather industry input on privacy, costs, and licensing consistency. - National-security rules would target three risk pathways: training AI models that lower barriers to designing weapons of mass destruction or enable offensive cyber operations; access to tools designed mainly for offensive cyber operations; and use of spyware, location tracking, or biometric ID to undermine human rights. - The measure expands the Export Control Reform Act across policy, presidential authority, transfers, licensing, compliance, enforcement, and reporting. It also requires annual impact analysis and ends the authority to control remote access after 10 years unless renewed.

## Cosponsors (6)

- Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] (D-OR), 2025-12-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] (R-AR), 2025-12-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] (D-DE), 2025-12-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL] (R-FL), 2026-06-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN] (R-IN), 2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI] (D-MI), 2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Remote access authority ends in 10 years: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would automatically end the authority to impose controls on remote access ten years after the act becomes law. That means the new powers to regulate remote cloud access would expire on that date unless Congress extends them. Firms would get a predictable legal time horizon for…
- Treat cloud access like exports: cost, high. If enacted, the bill would amend the Export Control Reform Act to treat provision of remote access like an export or in‑country transfer. That means remote connections to Commerce Control List items could need licenses, be restricted by the President, and be subject to enforcement, penalties, compl…
- New rules on foreign cloud users: cost, medium. If enacted, the bill would define who counts as a "foreign person of concern." That would include governments named in 10 U.S.C. 4872(f)(2) and any regions within them (explicitly including Macau and Hong Kong SAR), entities based or ultimately headquartered there, and people under those government…
- New remote access cloud rules: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would add a legal definition of "remote access" for items on the Commerce Control List. It would apply when a foreign person of concern uses a cloud infrastructure service (IaaS per NIST SP 800-145) from outside the United States to access a controlled item not physically where…

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## Sources
- [119-s-3519 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3519)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3519 (as of 2026-08-06).