S. 1705 · 119th Congress

Chip Security Act

Introduced on May 8, 2025 by Tom Cotton (R-AR). 21 cosponsors, 9 of them from another party. Latest action (May 8, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
May 8, 2025
Cosponsors
21
9 from the other party
Policy area
Foreign Trade and International Finance
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

A bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to issue standards with respect to chip security mechanisms for integrated circuit products, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Advanced technology and technological innovations
  • Computer security and identity theft
  • Congressional oversight
  • Licensing and registrations
  • Trade restrictions

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in Senate, May 8, 2025). Public domain.

Chip Security Act

This bill requires covered integrated circuit products (e.g., advanced computing chips) to incorporate certain security mechanisms.

Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Commerce to require any covered integrated circuit product to have chip security mechanisms that implement location verification before the product is exported, reexported, or in-country transferred to or in a foreign country.

Commerce must require any person that has received a license or other authorization under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to export, reexport, or in-country transfer a covered product to promptly report to Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security if the person obtains credible information that the product has been diverted away from its intended location or has been subjected to tampering.

Commerce must, in coordination with the Department of Defense (DOD), conduct an assessment and report to Congress on whether additional chip security mechanisms should be adopted. If Commerce determines additional security measures are necessary, then Commerce must require any covered product to include the secondary chip security mechanisms before the product is exported, reexported, or in-country transferred to or in a foreign country.

The bill authorizes Commerce to take certain enforcement actions, such as verifying the ownership and location of a covered product that has been exported, reexported, or in-country transferred to or in a foreign country.

Commerce must coordinate with DOD, within two years of the bill's enactment and annually thereafter for three years, to assess new chip security mechanisms and report to Congress.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Tom CottonR-ARSponsor

Democrats · 9

Republicans · 12

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. May 8, 2025Introduced in Senate
  2. May 8, 2025 · SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. Google Client Services LLC10 reports
    $16.5M reported (all issues)
  2. ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.9 reports
    $6.1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.AI match · 98%
  3. DELL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.9 reports
    $7.3M reported (all issues)
  4. NVIDIA CORPORATION9 reports
    $6.6M reported (all issues)
  5. SYNOPSYS, INC.9 reports
    $1.6M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: SYNOPSYS, INC.$245.7K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY COUNCIL7 reports
    $3.6M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC$271.1K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  7. American Security Fund5 reports
    $150K reported (all issues)
  8. Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.5 reports
    $87.7M reported (all issues)
  9. INTEL CORPORATION5 reports
    $3.9M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INTEL CORPORATIONAI match · 99%
  10. SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION5 reports
    $2.2M reported (all issues)
  11. ARM INC.4 reports
    $420K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ARM INCAI match · 96%
  12. Arm Holdings plc4 reports
    $480K reported (all issues)
  13. CENTER FOR AI SAFETY ACTION FUND, INC.4 reports
    $260K reported (all issues)
  14. FDD Action4 reports
    $980K reported (all issues)
  15. LENOVO (UNITED STATES) INC.4 reports
    $2M reported (all issues)
  16. MEDIATEK USA INC.3 reports
    $274K reported (all issues)
  17. THE AI POLICY NETWORK INC.3 reports
    $501.4K reported (all issues)
  18. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)3 reports
    $2.1M reported (all issues)
  19. BROADCOM INC2 reports
    $850K reported (all issues)
  20. CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION2 reports
    $2.2M reported (all issues)
  21. Demand Progress Action, Inc2 reports
    $70K reported (all issues)
  22. EXIGER LLC2 reports
    $220K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: EXIGER LLCAI match · 97%
  23. Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)2 reports
    $100K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC$271.1K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  24. SEMI2 reports
    $920K reported (all issues)
  25. Software & Information Industry Association2 reports
    $2.8M reported (all issues)
  26. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED2 reports
    $900K reported (all issues)
  27. AMPERE COMPUTING EMPLOYER LLC1 report
    $40K reported (all issues)
  28. Anthropic1 report
    $2M reported (all issues)
  29. Heritage Action for America1 report
    $140K reported (all issues)
  30. ORACLE AMERICA, INC.1 report
    $60K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ORACLE AMERICA, INC$53.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  31. Oracle Corporation1 report
    $2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ORACLE AMERICA, INC$53.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  32. THE ALLIANCE FOR SECURE AI ACTION1 report
    $10K reported (all issues)
  33. With Honor Action, Inc.1 report
    $140K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

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  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.