S.Amdt. 6470

SA 6470. Mr. REED (for Mr. Cornyn (for himself and Mr. Whitehouse)) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 proposed by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the Department of Defense and 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) Definition.--Section 1 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(q) The term ‘country of concern' means--

“(1) the People's Republic of China;

“(2) the Russian Federation;

“(3) the Islamic Republic of Iran;

“(4) the Democratic People's Republic of Korea;

“(5) the Republic of Cuba; and

“(6) the Syrian Arab Republic.”.

(b) 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 a country of concern” before the colon.

(c) Sunset.--The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall terminate on October 1, 2025.