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No Technology for Terror Act · Pub. L. 118-50 · sec. 2(e)

National Interest Waiver

Not publicly verifiableWaiver notice
Deadline
No deadline in text
Recurrence
Not stated
Duty holder
Secretary of Commerce
Recipients
House Foreign Affairs; House Financial Services; Senate Foreign Relations; Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (named in the provision)
Enacted
Apr. 24, 2024
Location
Division N

Statutory Text

(e) National Interest Waiver.—The Secretary of Commerce may waive the requirements imposed under this section if the Secretary—

(1) determines that the waiver is in the national interests of the United States; and

(2) submits to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a report explaining which requirements are being waived and the reasons for the waiver.

Verbatim from the enrolled law as published by GovInfo; margin notes and page markers omitted. Pub. L. 118-50 on GovInfo · PDF · text fetched Oct. 17, 2026

How the Date Is Worked Out

  1. Enacted Apr. 24, 2024 (Pub. L. 118-50).
  2. The provision states no deadline, so none is shown.

Delivery Status

Not publicly verifiable

Public Evidence

  • No public document located that shows delivery.

Evidence Searched

  • GovInfo Congressionally Mandated Reports collection: 1,209 packages listed; titles searched for Middle East terms; 55 State, Defense, Treasury and executive-office summaries checked for citations to Pub. L. 118-50 (0 found) (Oct. 17, 2026)
  • Federal Register API: phrase “Mahsa Amini Human Rights and Security Accountability Act”: 1 document titles searched (Oct. 17, 2026)
  • Federal Register API: phrase “Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum Act”: 1 document titles searched (Oct. 17, 2026)
  • Federal Register API: phrase “Hamas International Financing Prevention Act”: 0 document titles searched (Oct. 17, 2026)
  • MEF hand review: evidence.json, items with a link and a note on what the document shows (Oct. 17, 2026)

A status of “Reported late by GAO, committee or agency” appears only with a linked GAO, committee or agency statement. Reports sent only to committees, or in classified form, leave no public trace; their absence here is not evidence of a missed deadline.

Review

  • Machine-extracted by rule from the public law text; awaiting named human review.

Cite the provision No Technology for Terror Act, Pub. L. No. 118-50, div. N, § 2(e), 138 Stat. 895 (2024).

Cite this page Middle East Forum, “National Interest Waiver,” Owed to Congress, Nov. 11, 2026, https://bills.meforum.org/owed/m/pl118-50-dn-s2-e.html.