Remote Access Security Act

This bill brings remote access under the same export controls that already govern shipping and transferring sensitive items. It amends the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 so that a foreign person's purposeful, knowing, reckless, or negligent access to an export-controlled item over a network connection, including the internet or a cloud service, from a location other than where the item physically sits is treated as a controlled activity, on the same footing as an export or an in-country transfer. It defines that remote access and authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to regulate it when the Secretary finds the item's use could pose a serious risk to national security or foreign policy. The bill also directs the Secretary to keep the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Banking Committees fully informed of any planned remote-access rules, in a classified setting when needed, while making clear that those committees' approval is not required before the Secretary acts.

At least 23 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 116 quarterly reports filed by 11 lobbying firms and by 19 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

9 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 3519, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Bsa the Software Alliance (Formerly Bsa Business Software Alliance Inc); Business Software Alliance; Zscaler Inc. and Affiliates (Fka Zscaler, Inc.); Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Synopsys, Inc. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 18 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.