Strategic Export Controls and Border Security Enhancement Act
Sponsored By: Representative Jackson, Ronny [R-TX-13]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would create a new Office of Export Controls and Border Security inside the State Department to help partner countries prevent diversion and misuse of U.S.-origin critical and dual-use technologies. It centers on boosting legal frameworks, border enforcement, and international cooperation to protect proliferation-sensitive goods.
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- Partner countries would get training, technical help, equipment, and support to build licensing systems and enforcement capacity to stop diversion and unauthorized transfers.
- The Secretary of State would be required to develop a coordinated strategy within 180 days to align U.S. foreign assistance, identify priority regions and transit hubs, and promote interoperable border-security standards.
- The office would coordinate across State Department bureaus and with allies and multilateral partners to reduce program duplication, disrupt illicit networks, and use advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to improve risk detection at ports and borders.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
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State Office for Export and Border Security
This bill would create an Office of Export Controls and Border Security inside the State Department's Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation. The Office would help partner countries protect U.S.-origin critical technologies and proliferation-sensitive and dual-use items from diversion or misuse by supporting laws, licensing, enforcement, training, technical help, equipment, and border detection. The Secretary of State would have to make a strategy to align U.S. export-control assistance and submit an unclassified report to Congress within 180 days after enactment; a classified annex could be added if needed. The Secretary would also be allowed to set procedures to coordinate and deconflict border-security and export-control assistance across State Department bureaus.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Jackson, Ronny [R-TX-13]
TX • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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