[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1566 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1566

 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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 2019

 Ms. Jayapal 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 to ensure online 
  access to the registration statements filed under such Act, 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. 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.
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