[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 434 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 434

 To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, to 
  modify requirements under that Act relating to exemptions, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 15, 2023

 Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Rubio, Mr. 
 Hagerty, Mr. Risch, and Mrs. Fischer) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 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.

    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 ``Preventing Adversary Influence, 
Disinformation, and Obscured Foreign Financing Act of 2023'' or the 
``PAID OFF Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF EXEMPTIONS UNDER FARA.

    (a) Definition.--Section 1 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act 
of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(q) The term `country of concern' means--
            ``(1) the People's Republic of China;
            ``(2) the Russian Federation;
            ``(3) the Islamic Republic of Iran;
            ``(4) the Democratic People's Republic of Korea;
            ``(5) the Republic of Cuba; and
            ``(6) the Syrian Arab Republic.''.
    (b) Exemptions.--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 a country of concern'' before the colon.
    (c) Sunset.--The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall 
terminate on October 1, 2026.
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