Title 50 — War and National Defense
Chapter 55 — Defense Production
§ 4585. Public database of covered foreign persons
Statutory text
In general
The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, may establish a publicly accessible, non-exhaustive database that identifies covered foreign persons that are either engaged in a prohibited technology or a notifiable technology pursuant to this subchapter.
Modification process
The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, is authorized to establish a mechanism for a covered foreign person to petition for their removal from or inclusion in the publicly accessible, non-exhaustive database described in (a).1
Confidentiality of evidence
The Secretary shall establish a mechanism for the public, including Congress, stakeholders, investors, and nongovernmental organizations, to submit evidence on a confidential basis regarding whether a foreign person is a covered foreign person in a prohibited technology or notifiable technology and should be included in the database described in subsection (a), if any.
Rule of construction
The database described in subsection (a), if any, shall not be considered to be an exhaustive or comprehensive list of covered foreign persons for the purposes of this subchapter.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. Probably should be preceded by “subsection”.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 119–60 div. H title LXXXV § 8521 · 139 Stat. 1930
Enacted · 50 U.S.C. § 4585
(Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, title VIII, § 805, as added Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXV, § 8521, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1930.)
Unresolved: Pub. L. 119–60 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, title VIII, § 805, as added Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXV, § 8521, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1930.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Credits
(Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, title VIII, § 805, as added Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXV, § 8521, , 139 Stat. 1930.)