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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9180 
To authorize the Federal Communications Commission to specify additional 
sources from which a radio station licensee must obtain information 
to enable the licensee to announce that a foreign governmental entity 
has paid for a broadcast. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 14, 2022 
Ms. ESHOO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To authorize the Federal Communications Commission to 
specify additional sources from which a radio station 
licensee must obtain information to enable the licensee 
to announce that a foreign governmental entity has paid 
for a broadcast. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Identifying Propa-
ganda on Our Airwaves Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ANNOUNCEMENT OF PAYMENT FOR BROADCAST. 
Section 317(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 
(47 U.S.C. 317(c)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(c)(1) The licensee of each radio station shall exer-
cise reasonable diligence to obtain information to enable 
such licensee to make the announcement required by this 
section. 
‘‘(2) In carrying out paragraph (1), the licensee of 
a radio station shall consult— 
‘‘(A) its employees; 
‘‘(B) other persons with whom it deals directly 
in connection with any program or program matter 
for broadcast; and 
‘‘(C) any additional source of information the 
Commission designates that may enable the licensee 
to verify whether the matter broadcast by the radio 
station was paid for or furnished by a foreign gov-
ernmental entity. 
‘‘(3) The licensee of a radio station shall— 
‘‘(A) obtain the information required under 
paragraph (1)— 
‘‘(i) when the licensee enters into an agree-
ment to lease time on the radio station; and 
‘‘(ii) when the licensee renews any agree-
ment described in clause (i); and 
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‘‘(B) keep a record of the information required 
under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(4) For purposes of this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘agent of a foreign principal’ 
means an agent of a foreign principal, as defined in 
section 1(c) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act 
of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611(c))— 
‘‘(i) that is registered as such with the At-
torney General under section 2 of that Act (22 
U.S.C. 612); 
‘‘(ii) if the agent’s foreign principal— 
‘‘(I) is a government of a foreign 
country or a foreign political party; or 
‘‘(II) is directly or indirectly operated, 
supervised, directed, owned, controlled, fi-
nanced, or subsidized by the government of 
a foreign country or a foreign political 
party; and 
‘‘(iii) that is acting in its capacity as an 
agent of such foreign principal described in 
clause (ii); 
‘‘(B) the term ‘foreign governmental entity’ in-
cludes— 
‘‘(i) the government of a foreign country; 
‘‘(ii) a foreign political party; 
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‘‘(iii) an agent of a foreign principal; and 
‘‘(iv) a United States-based foreign media 
outlet (as defined in section 624); 
‘‘(C) the term ‘foreign political party’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 1(f) of the For-
eign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended 
(22 U.S.C. 611(f)); and 
‘‘(D) the term ‘government of a foreign coun-
try’ has the meaning given the term in section 1(e) 
of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as 
amended (22 U.S.C. 611(e)).’’. 
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