[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9180 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9180

     To authorize the Federal Communications Commission to specify 
  additional sources from which a radio station licensee must obtain 
     information to enable the licensee to announce that a foreign 
             governmental entity has paid for a broadcast.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 14, 2022

  Ms. Eshoo introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
     To authorize the Federal Communications Commission to specify 
  additional sources from which a radio station licensee must obtain 
     information to enable the licensee to announce that a foreign 
             governmental entity has paid for a broadcast.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Identifying Propaganda on Our 
Airwaves Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNOUNCEMENT OF PAYMENT FOR BROADCAST.

    Section 317(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 317(c)) 
is amended to read as follows:
    ``(c)(1) The licensee of each radio station shall exercise 
reasonable diligence to obtain information to enable such licensee to 
make the announcement required by this section.
    ``(2) In carrying out paragraph (1), the licensee of a radio 
station shall consult--
            ``(A) its employees;
            ``(B) other persons with whom it deals directly in 
        connection with any program or program matter for broadcast; 
        and
            ``(C) any additional source of information the Commission 
        designates that may enable the licensee to verify whether the 
        matter broadcast by the radio station was paid for or furnished 
        by a foreign governmental entity.
    ``(3) The licensee of a radio station shall--
            ``(A) obtain the information required under paragraph (1)--
                    ``(i) when the licensee enters into an agreement to 
                lease time on the radio station; and
                    ``(ii) when the licensee renews any agreement 
                described in clause (i); and
            ``(B) keep a record of the information required under 
        paragraph (1).
    ``(4) For purposes of this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `agent of a foreign principal' means an 
        agent of a foreign principal, as defined in section 1(c) of the 
        Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 
        611(c))--
                    ``(i) that is registered as such with the Attorney 
                General under section 2 of that Act (22 U.S.C. 612);
                    ``(ii) if the agent's foreign principal--
                            ``(I) is a government of a foreign country 
                        or a foreign political party; or
                            ``(II) is directly or indirectly operated, 
                        supervised, directed, owned, controlled, 
                        financed, or subsidized by the government of a 
                        foreign country or a foreign political party; 
                        and
                    ``(iii) that is acting in its capacity as an agent 
                of such foreign principal described in clause (ii);
            ``(B) the term `foreign governmental entity' includes--
                    ``(i) the government of a foreign country;
                    ``(ii) a foreign political party;
                    ``(iii) an agent of a foreign principal; and
                    ``(iv) a United States-based foreign media outlet 
                (as defined in section 624);
            ``(C) the term `foreign political party' has the meaning 
        given the term in section 1(f) of the Foreign Agents 
        Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611(f)); and
            ``(D) the term `government of a foreign country' has the 
        meaning given the term in section 1(e) of the Foreign Agents 
        Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611(e)).''.
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