[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9493 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>






117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9493

   To amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to reauthorize the 
 export administrative subpoena authority and other authorities under 
                   that Act, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 12, 2022

   Mr. Higgins of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to reauthorize the 
 export administrative subpoena authority and other authorities under 
                   that Act, 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 ``Homeland Security Export Subpoena 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF EXPORT ADMINISTRATIVE SUBPOENA AUTHORITY AND 
              OTHER AUTHORITIES UNDER THE EXPORT CONTROL REFORM ACT OF 
              2018.

    Section 1761(k) of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 
4820(k)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(k) Authority of the Department of Homeland Security.--
            ``(1) In general.--Nothing in this subtitle shall be 
        construed to limit or otherwise affect the enforcement 
        authorities of the Department of Homeland Security.
            ``(2) Customs officer authorities.--
                    ``(A) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and 
                U.S. Customs and Border Protection may take appropriate 
                action to ensure observance of this subtitle as to the 
                enforcement of export controls.
                    ``(B) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may 
                make investigations into violations of this subtitle 
                both within and outside of the United States, and may 
                obtain such information from, require such reports or 
                the keeping of such records by, make such inspection of 
                the books, records, and other writings, premises, or 
                property of, and take the sworn testimony of, any 
                person.
                    ``(C) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
                special agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
                officers may administer oaths or affirmations, and may 
                by subpoena require any person to appear and testify or 
                to appear and produce books, records, and other 
                writings, or both, and in the case of contumacy by, or 
                refusal to obey a subpoena issued to, any such person, 
                a district court of the United States, after notice to 
                any such person and hearing, shall have jurisdiction to 
                issue an order requiring such person to appear and give 
                testimony or to appear and produce books, records, and 
                other writings, or both, and any failure to obey such 
                order of the court may be punished by such court as a 
                contempt thereof.''.
                                 <all>