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119th CONGRESS
2d Session |
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act to require social media influencers to submit registration statements, and for other purposes.
Mrs. Luna (for herself, Mr. Van Orden, Mr. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Moskowitz, Mrs. Cammack, Mr. Haridopolos, Mr. Wied, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Finstad, Mr. McDowell, Mr. McCormick, and Mr. Fuller) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act to require social media influencers to submit registration statements, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Foreign Propaganda Disclosure Act”.
SEC. 2. Inclusion of social media influencers.
Section 1 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611) is amended—
(1) in subsection (h), by inserting “a social media influencer or” after “includes”;
(2) in subsection (p), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
“(r) The term ‘social media influencer’ means any person who has a monetized social media account on any social media platform;
“(s) The term ‘social media platform’ has the meaning given such term defined in section 124 of the Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022 (42 U.S.C. 1862w).”.