Title: Preventing Adversary Influence, Disinformation, and Obscured Foreign Financing Act of 2022
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Preventing Adversary Influence, Disinformation, and Obscured Foreign Financing Act of 2022 or the PAID OFF Act of 2022
This bill requires certain persons to register as agents of a foreign principal if the foreign principal in question is China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, or Syria.
Currently, the Foreign Agents Registration Act exempts certain agents from the act's registration requirements, including agents (1) engaged only in private and nonpolitical activities to advance a foreign principal's bona fide trade or commerce interests, or (2) engaged in certain lobbying activities and where the agent has registered as a lobbyist. Under this bill, these exemptions shall not apply if the foreign principal is one of the countries specified in this bill.
The changes made by this bill shall expire on October 1, 2025.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9199 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9199

 To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, to 
  modify requirements under that Act relating to exemptions, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 18, 2022

 Mr. Pfluger (for himself and Mr. Crow) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing Adversary Influence, 
Disinformation, and Obscured Foreign Financing Act of 2022'' or the 
``PAID OFF Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. 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.
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