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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7063 

To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to limit the exemption 

from the registration requirements of such Act for persons engaging 

in activities in furtherance of bona fide religious, scholastic, academic, 

or scientific pursuits or the fine arts to activities which do not promote 

the political agenda of a foreign government, to amend the Higher 

Education Act of 1965 to clarify the disclosures of foreign gifts by 

institutions, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 28, 2020 

Mr. WILSON of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. GIBBS, and Mr. GUEST) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 

Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for 

a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 

consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 

to limit the exemption from the registration requirements 

of such Act for persons engaging in activities in furtherance of bona fide religious, scholastic, academic, or scientific pursuits or the fine arts to activities which do 

not promote the political agenda of a foreign government, 

to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to clarify 

the disclosures of foreign gifts by institutions, and for 

other purposes. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Foreign Influence 

5 Transparency Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. LIMITING EXEMPTION FROM FOREIGN AGENT REG7 ISTRATION REQUIREMENT FOR PERSONS EN8 GAGING IN ACTIVITIES IN FURTHERANCE OF 

9 CERTAIN PURSUITS TO ACTIVITIES NOT PRO10 MOTING POLITICAL AGENDA OF FOREIGN 

11 GOVERNMENTS. 

12 (a) LIMITATION ON EXEMPTION.—Section 3(e) of the 

13 Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (22 U.S.C. 

14 613(e)) is amended by striking the semicolon at the end 

15 and inserting the following: ‘‘, but only if the activities 

16 do not promote the political agenda of a government of 

17 a foreign country;’’. 

18 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 

19 subsection (a) shall apply with respect to activities carried 

20 out on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 

21 SEC. 3. DISCLOSURES OF FOREIGN GIFTS. 

22 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 117 of the Higher Edu23 cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1011f) is amended— 

24 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘the value of 

25 which is $250,000 or more, considered alone or in 


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1 combination with all other gifts from or contracts 

2 with’’ and inserting ‘‘the value of which is $50,000 

3 or more for such gift from or contract with’’; 

4 (2) in subsection (b)— 

5 (A) in paragraph (1), in the first sentence, 

6 by inserting before the period at the end the 

7 following: ‘‘, and the content of each such con8 tract’’; and 

9 (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting before 

10 the period the following: ‘‘, and the content of 

11 each such contract’’; 

12 (3) in subsection (e), by inserting ‘‘, including 

13 the contents of any contracts,’’ after ‘‘reports’’; and 

14 (4) in subsection (h)(3), by inserting before the 

15 semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘, or the fair 

16 market value of an in-kind gift’’. 

17 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

18 subsection (a) shall apply with respect to gifts received 

19 or contracts entered into, or other activities carried out, 

20 on or after the date of enactment of this Act. 

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