3.0.0 2583 2023-01-11T13:39:58Z 2023-01-11T13:39:58Z Senate S 2018-03-21 115 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2018-03-21T17:37:30Z Foreign Influence Transparency Act 115 5336 HR 2018-03-20 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. Related bill CRS 2018-03-21 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2018-03-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress R000595 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] Marco Rubio R FL N C001095 Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] Tom Cotton R AR 2018-03-21 True International Affairs Art, artists, authorship Cultural exchanges and relations Education General science and technology matters Government studies and investigations Higher education International exchange and broadcasting Performing arts Public participation and lobbying Religion Teaching, teachers, curricula International Affairs 00 2018-03-21 Introduced in Senate 2019-04-09T22:18:14Z Foreign Influence Transparency Act

This bill amends the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to limit the exemption from foreign agent registration with the Department of Justice for a person engaging in activities in furtherance of religious, scholastic, academic, or scientific pursuits or of the fine arts to only those activities that do not promote a foreign government's political agenda.

The Higher Education Act of 1965 is amended to require institutions to report to the Department of Education a gift or contract from a foreign source whose annual value is $50,000 or more. The fair market value of in-kind-gifts is included in such limit. (Currently, a report is due if the annual value is $250,000 or more, considered alone or in combination with all other gifts from or contracts with a foreign source.)

A report shall: (1) include the contents of any such contracts, and (2) make such contents available for public disclosure.

]]> Foreign Influence Transparency Act Display Title Foreign Influence Transparency Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to limit the exemption from the registration requirements of such Act for persons engaging in activities in furtherance of bona fide religious, scholastic, academic, or scientific pursuits or the fine arts to activities which do not promote the political agenda of a foreign government, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to clarify the disclosures of foreign gifts by institutions, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Foreign Influence Transparency Act Introduced in Senate 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2583is/xml/BILLS-115s2583is.xml 2018-03-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.