To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to ensure online access to the registration statements filed under such Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-1566
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2019-03-06
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: General foreign operations matters

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Government information and archives

Licensing and registrations

Public participation and lobbying
Latest action: action_date: 2019-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-03-06
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill revises the requirement that the Department of Justice maintain a public database regarding foreign agents with information contained in the agents' registration statements, including to require the information to be in a digitized format.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1566 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 6, 2019 Ms. Jayapal introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to ensure online access to the registration statements filed under such Act, and for other purposes.

1. Ensuring online access to registration statements (a) Requiring statements filed by registrants To be in digitized format Section 2(g) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended ( 22 U.S.C. 612(g) ) is amended by striking in electronic form and inserting in a digitized format which will enable the Attorney General to meet the requirements of section 6(d)(1) (relating to public access to an electronic database of statements and updates) . (b) Requirements for electronic database of registration statements and updates Section 6(d)(1) of such Act ( 22 U.S.C. 616(d)(1) ) is amended— (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking to the extent technically practicable, ; and (2) in subparagraph (A), by striking includes the information and inserting includes in a digitized format the information . (c) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to statements filed on or after the expiration of the 180-day period which begins on the date of the enactment of this Act.