H.R. 6996

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6996 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6996

To facilitate the export of United States artificial intelligence 
systems, computing hardware, and standards globally.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 9, 2026

Mr. Fine introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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A BILL

To facilitate the export of United States artificial intelligence 
systems, computing hardware, and standards globally.

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 ``Full AI Stack Export Promotion 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:
(1) The United States is in a race to achieve global 
dominance in artificial intelligence, the winner of which will 
reap broad economic and military benefits.
(2) Winning the AI race will usher in a new golden age of 
human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national 
security for the American people.
(3) Establishing United States AI as the gold standard for 
AI worldwide and ensuring our allies build AI on United States 
technology will help the United States win the AI race.
(4) Advanced AI compute is essential to the AI era, 
enabling both economic dynamism and novel military 
capabilities. Denying our foreign adversaries access to this 
resource, then, is a matter of both geostrategic competition 
and national security.

SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY.

It is the policy of the United States to--
(1) maintain United States dominance in the global 
deployment of artificial intelligence;
(2) drive adoption of the U.S. full AI stack by allies and 
partners;
(3) ensure global deployment of artificial intelligence is 
based on United States-developed AI models, run by United 
States cloud operators, run by data centers owned or operated 
by United States firms, and functioning on United States-
designed artificial intelligence semiconductors;
(4) reduce the barriers faced by United States firms to 
export the U.S. full AI stack;
(5) counter Chinese influence in international governance 
bodies and ensure the global deployment of the full AI stack 
strengthens United States values abroad;
(6) prevent illicit foreign adversary access to the U.S. 
full AI stack deployed abroad;
(7) ensure the global deployment of AI strengthens the 
qualitative military superiority of the United States and its 
allies over foreign adversaries; and
(8) maintain a majority of globally deployed artificial 
intelligence computing capacity and memory bandwidth in the 
United States.

SEC. 4. INDUSTRY CONSORTIA FOR EXPORTING THE FULL AI STACK.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Commerce shall establish and 
carry out a program to identify and receive proposals that meet United 
States-approved security requirements and standards from industry 
consortia to facilitate the export of the U.S. full AI stack to allies 
and partners. An industry consortia shall be eligible to submit 
proposals under this subsection if the consortia is established only 
for the purposes of participating in the program under this subsection.
(b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date on which the 
program required by subsection (a) is established, the Secretary of 
Commerce shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
report on the status and results of the program.

SEC. 5. ELIMINATING FOREIGN BARRIERS TO THE U.S. FULL AI STACK.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Commerce, shall work to increase efforts to eliminate 
foreign barriers to the export of the U.S. full AI stack, including--
(1) carrying out activities such as holding regular 
industry listening sessions;
(2) establishing a hotline for industry to communications 
barriers to exporting the U.S. full AI stack;
(3) elevating appropriate diplomatic channels; and
(4) carrying out other relevant actions.
(b) Diplomatic Strategy.--Not later than 180 days after the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall establish a 
diplomatic strategy outlining how the United States will address the 
following:
(1) Easing United States AI companies' access to foreign 
markets.
(2) Communicating to foreign countries the importance and 
benefits of using the U.S. full AI stack to deploy artificial 
intelligence.
(3) Leveraging the United States position in international 
diplomatic and standard-setting bodies to advocate for 
international AI governance approaches that promote innovation, 
reflect American values, and counter authoritarian influence.
(c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date on which the 
strategy required by subsection (c) is completed, the Secretary of 
Commerce shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees the 
strategy and an update on efforts to implement the strategy.

SEC. 6. STUDY ON GLOBAL AI DEPLOYMENT.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of State, in coordination with the 
Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Commerce, shall 
conduct a study on the benefits and impact of the global deployment of 
artificial intelligence.
(b) Matters To Be Addressed.--The study required by subsection (a) 
shall address the following:
(1) The economic, diplomatic, and technological impact for 
the United States and its allies from the global deployment of 
the U.S. full AI stack.
(2) The impact on U.S. economic, diplomatic, and 
technological leadership from the global deployment of the U.S. 
full AI stack.
(3) How the global deployment of the U.S. full AI stack 
assists countries worldwide in achieving economic prosperity, 
improving quality of life, expanding healthcare and educational 
access for their citizens, and growing access to AI.
(4) The competitive position of the U.S. full AI stack 
globally, compared to similar technology developed by foreign 
countries.
(5) How the global deployment of the U.S. full AI stack 
enhances or affects United States and allied security, 
including the qualitative military superiority of the United 
States and its allies over foreign adversaries.
(6) Priority regions and countries for exporting the U.S. 
full AI stack abroad.
(c) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State submit to 
appropriate congressional committees a report on the results of 
the study required by subsection (a).
(2) Form.--The report required by this subsection shall be 
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified 
annex.

SEC. 7. SECURITY OF U.S. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SEMICONDUCTOR 
PRODUCTS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with 
the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of 
Energy, shall work with foreign purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack to 
institute security measures to prevent illicit or unauthorized foreign 
adversary access to the U.S. full AI stack.
(b) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 
the development and implementation of the security measures 
described in subsection (a).
(2) Form.--The report required by this subsection shall be 
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified 
annex.
(c) Matters To Be Addressed.--The report required by subsection (b) 
shall address the following:
(1) Plans of the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination 
with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the 
Secretary of Energy, to increase the speed and security of the 
deployment of the U.S. full AI stack, such as creating 
standardized security requirements for the U.S. full AI stack 
deployed in third countries.
(2) Agreements reached with countries designed to promote 
adoption of the U.S. full stack, including efforts to prevent 
illicit or unauthorized foreign adversary access to the U.S. 
full AI stack.
(3) The security measures that foreign purchasers of the 
U.S. full AI stack must undertake to prevent transfer of the 
U.S. full AI stack to foreign adversaries, including by remote 
access.
(4) The presence of foreign adversary hardware and software 
within the artificial intelligence supply chains of foreign 
purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack, and supply-chain security 
measures that foreign purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack take 
to eliminate that presence.
(5) Any other relevant information regarding the security 
of the U.S. full AI stack.

SEC. 8. AI FULL STACK CONFIDENCE INITIATIVE.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of 
State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the 
public, including the industry consortia identified in section 4, shall 
develop generally applicable practices, product offerings, or related 
standards to help demonstrate confidence and reassurance to major 
national purchasers of the U.S. full AI stack of the privacy, 
confidentiality, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. full AI stack 
for achieving the economic and security goals of major foreign 
purchasers.

SEC. 9. AI FULL STACK EXPORT SUCCESS TRACKER.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and biannually thereafter for five years, the 
Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Director of National 
Intelligence and the Secretary of State, shall complete an estimate of 
the success of the export of the U.S. full AI stack (in this section 
referred to as the ``AI export success tracker'').
(b) Contents.--The AI export success tracker shall contain the 
following elements:
(1) An estimate of each country's installed artificial 
intelligence, measured by total national computing capacity and 
total national memory bandwidth.
(2) An estimate of what proportion of globally installed 
artificial intelligence integrated circuits are designed by 
United States firms.
(3) An estimate of what proportion of globally installed 
artificial intelligence is installed in data centers owned or 
operated by United States firms, with appropriate descriptive 
breakdowns for each region or country.
(4) An estimate of the proportion of global artificial 
intelligence model usage, measured by tokens processed, that 
occurs for models owned or operated by United States firms, 
with appropriate descriptive breakdowns for each region or 
country.
(5) An estimate of the proportion of global cloud computing 
services revenue and data-processing capacity is attributable 
to cloud operators owned or operated by United States firms.
(c) Report.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Commerce shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees and make available to 
the public a report that contains the findings of each estimate 
described under subsection (b).
(2) Form.--The report required by this subsection shall be 
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified 
annex.

SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act--
(1) the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
of Representatives; and
(B) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs of the Senate;
(2) the term ``artificial intelligence integrated 
circuits'' means any semiconductor device or integrated circuit 
architecture that is marketed to perform artificial 
intelligence model training, inference, or acceleration, 
including but not limited to graphics processing units;
(3) the term ``foreign adversaries'' has the meaning given 
the term ``covered nation'' in section 4872(f) of title 10, 
United States Code;
(4) the term ``full AI stack'' means the compute and data 
infrastructure that enable artificial intelligence research and 
development, including high-performance computing resources, 
data centers, the trained algorithms deployed on such 
infrastructure, cloud services and infrastructure, and the 
technical standards with which these facets operate;
(5) the term ``national computing capacity'' means the 
aggregate maximum number of floating-point operations per 
second (FLOP/s) or equivalent operations available within a 
country from computing devices, processors, or systems 
configured for large-scale artificial intelligence training or 
inference. Computing capacity shall be calculated as the 
maximum number of floating-point operations per second (FLOP/
s), normalized at a precision level determined by the Secretary 
of Commerce;
(6) the term ``national memory bandwidth'' means the 
aggregate maximum rate, expressed in bytes per second, at which 
data can be transferred between processing elements and 
directly attached memory resources in all computing devices, 
processors, or systems that are configured for large-scale 
artificial intelligence training or inference within a country. 
National memory bandwidth shall be measured as the sum of the 
sustained aggregate data transfer rates of such systems under 
standard benchmark conditions;
(7) the term ``U.S. artificial intelligence semiconductor 
products'' means any semiconductor device or integrated circuit 
architecture for which design activities were conducted in the 
United States and that is marketed to perform artificial 
intelligence model training, inference, or acceleration, 
including but not limited to graphics processing units;
(8) the term ``U.S. full AI stack'' means those parts of 
the full AI stack with respect to which entities whose ultimate 
parent company is organized or headquartered in the United 
States are key developers, manufacturers, or providers across 
the relevant parts of the supply chain; and
(9) the term ``token'' means a basic unit of text, code, or 
other data processed by an artificial intelligence model, 
typically corresponding to a word, part of a word, or symbol, 
used for the purpose of measuring the volume of model input or 
output.
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