3.0.0 1473 2026-02-27T15:17:46Z 2026-02-27T15:17:46Z Senate S S 2025-04-10 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1473 ssbk00 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-04-10T20:16:00Z Stop Stealing our Chips Act 119 6322 HR 2025-11-28 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Related bill CRS 2025-04-10 ssbk00 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. IntroReferral 2025-04-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress R000605 Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] Mike Rounds R SD N W000805 Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] Mark Warner D VA R. 2025-04-10 True Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign Trade and International Finance 2025-05-27T15:48:00Z 00 2025-04-10 Introduced in Senate 2026-02-25T19:13:11Z Stop Stealing our Chips Act

This bill creates a whistleblower incentive program and establishes whistleblower protections for individuals who provide information to the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) related to violations of U.S. export control laws. 

Currently, BIS administers and enforces controls on the export of dual-use goods (e.g., items with both civilian and military uses) and certain military parts and components. These export controls are implemented primarily under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA) through the Export Administration Regulations.

Under the bill, BIS must establish a whistleblower incentive program to reward individuals who voluntarily report original information that results in BIS imposing fines under ECRA on persons that violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of ECRA or any related regulation, order, license, or authorization.

Additionally, BIS must establish a secure online portal for whistleblowers to report violations of ECRA. The bill outlines requirements for BIS to review, investigate, and provide status updates related to these reports.

The bill authorizes BIS to pay an award to any whistleblower who voluntarily reported original information that led to the imposition of a fine under ECRA. The bill establishes the Export Compliance Accountability Fund for paying these awards and funding related activities.

The bill also sets forth whistleblower protections by (1) prohibiting retaliation against individuals who act as whistleblowers, and (2) establishing confidentiality requirements.

]]> Stop Stealing our Chips Act Display Title 45 Stop Stealing our Chips Act 2025-05-03T03:23:22Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Stop Stealing our Chips Act 2025-05-03T03:23:20Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to establish a whistleblower incentive program and provide protections to whistleblowers. 2025-05-03T03:18:28Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-04-10T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s1473is/xml/BILLS-119s1473is.xml 2025-04-10 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.