BIS License Fee Prohibition Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5955 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5955 To prohibit the collection and obligation of any fee collected in connection with an export license and require the return of such fee to the holder of the license, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 7, 2025 Ms. Kamlager-Dove (for herself and Mr. Krishnamoorthi) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To prohibit the collection and obligation of any fee collected in connection with an export license and require the return of such fee to the holder of the license, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``BIS License Fee Prohibition Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution directly states, ``No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State''. (2) Section 1756 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (subtitle B of title XVII of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019; 50 U.S.C. 4815) states, ``No fee may be charged in connection with the submission, processing, or consideration of any application for a license or other authorization or other request made in connection with any regulation in effect under the authority of this part.''. (3) The placement of export controls on dual-use technologies to the People's Republic of China should be based on assessments of national security and economic competitiveness. SEC. 3. LICENSE FEES PROHIBITED. (a) Prohibition.--No amount may be collected by the Federal Government after the date of th