S.Amdt. 194

SA 194. Mr. GRASSLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1083. RETROACTIVE FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION.

(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the
``Retroactive Foreign Agents Registration Act''.
(b) Clarifying Obligation to Register Retroactively as
Agents of Foreign Principals.--
(1) Obligation.--The third sentence of section 2(a) of the
Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22
U.S.C. 612(a)) is amended by striking ``for the period'' and
inserting ``covering the period''.
(2) Effective date.--The amendment made by paragraph (1)
shall apply with respect to any individual who serves as the
agent of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents
Registration Act of 1938, as amended, at any time before, on,
or after the date of enactment of this Act.
(c) Permitting Order Requiring Compliance to Apply
Retroactively.--
(1) Retroactive compliance.--Section 8(f) of the Foreign
Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C.
618(f)) is amended--
(A) by inserting after the first sentence the following:
``The Attorney General may make application for an order
requiring a person to comply with any appropriate provision
of this Act or any regulation thereunder while the person
acts as an agent of a foreign principal or at any time
thereafter.''; and
(B) by striking the period at the end and inserting the
following: ``, including an order requiring a person to
comply with section 2 with respect to any period during which
the person acts as the agent of a foreign principal
notwithstanding that the person does not act as the agent of
a foreign principal at the time the court issues the
order.''.
(2) Effective date.--The amendment made by paragraph (1)
shall apply with respect to any individual who serves as the
agent of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents
Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.)
at any time before, on, or after the date of enactment of
this Act.
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