ARMAS Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 6736 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6736 To require the transfer of regulatory control of certain munitions exports from the Department of Commerce to the Department of State, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 16, 2025 Mr. Castro of Texas (for himself, Mrs. Torres of California, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Magaziner, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Frost, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Jayapal, Mrs. Grijalva, Ms. Omar, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Menendez, and Ms. Titus) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the transfer of regulatory control of certain munitions exports from the Department of Commerce to the Department of State, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Americas Regional Monitoring of Arms Sales Act of 2025'' or the ``ARMAS Act of 2025''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Transfer of regulatory control of certain munitions exports from Department of Commerce to Department of State. Sec. 4. Reports and strategy on disruption of illegal export and trafficking of firearms to Mexico and certain Central American and Caribbean countries. Sec. 5. Increasing participation in the eTrace program. Sec. 6. Modifications to the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative. Sec. 7. Designation of covered countries. Sec. 8. Certification requirements rela