II
118th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 434
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 15, 2023
Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. Risch, and Mrs. Fischer) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
A BILL
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, to modify requirements under that Act relating to exemptions, and for other purposes.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Preventing Adversary Influence, Disinformation, and Obscured Foreign Financing Act of 2023
or the PAID OFF Act of 2023
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Treatment of exemptions under FARA
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:
The term country of concern
means—
the People's Republic of China;
the Russian Federation;
the Islamic Republic of Iran;
the Democratic People's Republic of Korea;
the Republic of Cuba; and
the Syrian Arab Republic.
.
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.
Sunset
The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall terminate on October 1, 2026.