HR 5022 No Advanced Chips for the CCP Act 2025 (Congressional approval for the export of advanced artificial intelligence semiconductors to China)

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Proposed
• Most recent activity date: 2025-08-22

Risk subdomain coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Cyberattacks, weapon development or use
• Competitive dynamics
• AI possessing dangerous capabilities

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document primarily addresses national security and competitive dynamics risks related to AI semiconductor exports. It has focused coverage on preventing malicious use (4.2 weapons development, 4.1 surveillance/human rights abuses), maintaining technological leadership (6.4 competitive dynamics), and controlling access to AI-enabling infrastructure that could enable dangerous capabilities (7.2). Coverage is concentrated in the malicious actors and socioeconomic domains, with 4-5 subdomains addressed.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Agriculture, Mining, Construction & Manufacturing
• Trade, Transportation & Utilities
• National Security

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Information
• Scientific Research & Development Services
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Trade, Transportation and Utilities sector (export activities) and the Agriculture, Mining, Construction and Manufacturing sector (semiconductor production). It secondarily affects the Information sector (AI/tech companies that use or develop AI systems requiring advanced semiconductors) and Scientific Research and Development Services (organizations conducting AI research).

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding Congressional bill that establishes mandatory legal prohibitions on semiconductor exports to China, requires both executive and congressional approval for any exemptions, and uses mandatory legal language throughout.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The document is a Congressional bill proposed by the legislative branch, as indicated by the header and legislative format requiring enactment 'by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.'

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Infrastructure_Provider, AI_Developer
• Summary: The regulation applies to 'any person' who may export, reexport, or transfer advanced AI semiconductors. This includes semiconductor manufacturers, AI infrastructure providers, and AI developers who use or distribute such chips.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The Secretary of Commerce leads the approval process through interagency review, with Congress providing the final enforcement through joint resolution. Multiple executive agencies participate in the review and determination process.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The Secretary of Commerce conducts ongoing review and monitoring in coordination with other federal agencies and the intelligence community to assess exports against national security criteria.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Build and Use Model
• Deploy

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document focuses on controlling access to AI infrastructure (advanced semiconductors) that enables AI development and deployment. Primary coverage is on the 'Build and Use Model' stage since semiconductors are essential for training and running AI models. There is implicit coverage of 'Deploy' stage as chips are needed for operational AI systems. The document does not directly address data collection, validation, or monitoring of AI systems themselves, but rather governs the export of hardware enabling these activities.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• Compute Threshold

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly defines 'advanced AI semiconductor' using specific technical performance thresholds but does not directly mention AI models, AI systems, frontier AI, GPAI, or other AI system categories. It focuses on the hardware infrastructure that enables AI rather than characterizing the AI systems themselves. The technical thresholds relate to semiconductor performance metrics (processing performance, bandwidth) rather than compute used for AI training (FLOPs).