[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 123 (Thursday, July 17, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4462]
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  SA 2905. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title II, add the following:

     SEC. 228. HARDWARE-ENABLED GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS FOR EXPORT 
                   CONTROL ENFORCEMENT.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of the Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Research and Engineering, in coordination with the Under 
     Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, shall 
     initiate the research and development of hardware-enabled 
     governance mechanisms for advanced chips to ensure that such 
     chips are not exported in violation of export controls 
     imposed by the United States. Such mechanisms may include--
       (1) tamper-resistant chip location verification;
       (2) high-bandwidth communication bottlenecking;
       (3) on-chip metering and licensing; and
       (4) tamper-resistant or tamper-evident encasing.
       (b) Briefing Required.--Not later than one year after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of 
     Defense for Research and Engineering shall provide a briefing 
     to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the 
     House of Representatives to make recommendations for future 
     steps to implement hardware-enabled governance mechanisms 
     described in subsection (a).
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