[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 119 (Wednesday, July 12, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2388]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 194. Mr. GRASSLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1083. RETROACTIVE FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the 
     ``Retroactive Foreign Agents Registration Act''.
       (b) Clarifying Obligation to Register Retroactively as 
     Agents of Foreign Principals.--
       (1) Obligation.--The third sentence of section 2(a) of the 
     Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 
     U.S.C. 612(a)) is amended by striking ``for the period'' and 
     inserting ``covering the period''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendment made by paragraph (1) 
     shall apply with respect to any individual who serves as the 
     agent of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents 
     Registration Act of 1938, as amended, at any time before, on, 
     or after the date of enactment of this Act.
       (c) Permitting Order Requiring Compliance to Apply 
     Retroactively.--
       (1) Retroactive compliance.--Section 8(f) of the Foreign 
     Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 
     618(f)) is amended--
       (A) by inserting after the first sentence the following: 
     ``The Attorney General may make application for an order 
     requiring a person to comply with any appropriate provision 
     of this Act or any regulation thereunder while the person 
     acts as an agent of a foreign principal or at any time 
     thereafter.''; and
       (B) by striking the period at the end and inserting the 
     following: ``, including an order requiring a person to 
     comply with section 2 with respect to any period during which 
     the person acts as the agent of a foreign principal 
     notwithstanding that the person does not act as the agent of 
     a foreign principal at the time the court issues the 
     order.''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendment made by paragraph (1) 
     shall apply with respect to any individual who serves as the 
     agent of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents 
     Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.) 
     at any time before, on, or after the date of enactment of 
     this Act.
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