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  • H.R. 8152, titled the “Remote Access Security Act,” aims to amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018. The bill seeks to establish regulations on the remote access of items subject to U.S. jurisdiction by foreign individuals through networks like the internet or cloud...

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    H.R. 8152 wants to add new rules about how people from other countries can use certain things, like software or gadgets, over the internet or cloud. These rules would help control who can access and use these items online, just like they do for sending them to other places.

  • H.R. 8152, called the “Remote Access Security Act,” aims to strengthen the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 by placing new controls on remote access to certain items from outside the United States. The bill defines remote access as using or interacting with an item that's on...

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    H.R. 8152 wants to make sure that people from other countries can't use important U.S. technology from far away, like over the internet, without permission because it could be unsafe. This is to prevent things like using special computers or making weapons in ways that could cause harm.

  • H.R. 7151, titled the "Export Control Enforcement and Enhancement Act," aims to streamline the process for adding, removing, or modifying entities on the Export Control Entity List, which is used to control the export of certain technologies. The bill amends the Export...

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    H.R. 7151 is a plan that helps decide quickly if certain companies should be added or removed from a special list that controls important technology trades. If a company is on this list, it usually can't buy certain things from the U.S., unless the government thinks it's really important for safety or making friends with other countries.

  • H. R. 6602 amends the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to modify how disputes involving the interagency process are resolved. It specifies that decisions relating to countries under a United States arms embargo must be made more decisively and clarifies the chair's authority...

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    H. R. 6602 is a bill that changes some rules about how the U.S. government handles disagreements between its own agencies when they're deciding how to deal with countries they don't want to sell weapons to, like Russia. It says these decisions must be made more clearly and adds rules to help decide who makes the final call if they can't agree.