S.Amdt. 5578

SA 5578. Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Hagerty, and Mrs. Fischer) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and

intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. TREATMENT OF EXEMPTIONS UNDER FARA.

(a) Limitation on Exemptions.--Section 3 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 613), is amended, in the matter preceding subsection (a), by inserting “, except that the exemptions under subsections (d)(1) and (h) shall not apply to any agent of a foreign principal that is listed as a foreign adversary (as defined in section 8(c) of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1607(c))) in accordance with that Act” before the colon.

(b) National Telecommunications and Information Administration Program Modification.--Section 8(a) of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1607(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(4) Information on foreign adversaries.--Notwithstanding paragraph (3), the Secretary of Commerce shall periodically submit to the Attorney General a list of, and any relevant information relating to, each foreign adversary identified for purposes of the program established under paragraph (1).”.