PAID OFF Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4901
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2022-09-20
Policy area: International Affairs
Latest action: action_date: 2022-09-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text: CR S4858)

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-09-20
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Preventing Adversary Influence, Disinformation, and Obscured Foreign Financing Act of 2022 or the PAID OFF Act of </strong><strong>2022</strong></p> <p>This bill requires certain persons to register as agents of a foreign principal if the foreign principal in question is a foreign adversary.</p> <p>For the purposes of this bill, a <em>foreign adversary</em> is a foreign government or person (individual or entity)&nbsp;that has engaged in a long-term pattern of conduct significantly adverse to U.S. national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons. </p> <p>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 a foreign adversary. </p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4901 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 20, 2022 Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse , Mr. Rubio , Mr. Hagerty , 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.

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 . 2. Treatment of exemptions under FARA 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 listed as a foreign adversary (as defined in section 8(c) of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 ( 47 U.S.C. 1607(c) )) in accordance with that Act before the colon.