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<dc:title>119 S865 IS: Lobbying Disclosure Improvement Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-03-05</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code><congress>119th CONGRESS</congress><session>1st Session</session><legis-num>S. 865</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20250305">March 5, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S380">Mr. Peters</sponsor> (for himself and <cosponsor name-id="S153">Mr. Grassley</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSGA00">Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title>To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require certain disclosures by registrants regarding exemptions under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended. </official-title></form><legis-body style="OLC" display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="section-one" id="S1"><enum>1.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Lobbying Disclosure Improvement Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="idBD77B127FFFE45698512702B69618903"><enum>2.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Registrant disclosure regarding foreign agent registration exemption</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4(b) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/2/1603">2 U.S.C. 1603(b)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id484F7600324B4D79A5B0DDF5AD178F2E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (6), by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon; </text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9980AE24870649F785CE973C489105FA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA04FEF167810462D8BE1EBEC54D286C0"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4542318BE99042ADAE1E1A67557FF3F8"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBD7122756EF3454A9FEC082B4697E6F3"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a statement as to whether the registrant is exempt under section 3(h) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/613">22 U.S.C. 613(h)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section></legis-body></bill> 

