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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 981
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended to
clarify that the obligation of individuals who formerly served as agents
of foreign principals to register as foreign agents under the Act is
continuing with respect to activities carried out previously on behalf
of such foreign principals, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH12, 2025
Mr. G
RASSLEY(for himself, Mr. PETERS, Mr. YOUNG, and Ms. WARREN) in-
troduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations
A BILL
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938,
as amended to clarify that the obligation of individuals
who formerly served as agents of foreign principals to
register as foreign agents under the Act is continuing
with respect to activities carried out previously on behalf
of such foreign principals, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Foreign Agents Trans-4
parency Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. CLARIFYING THE CONTINUING OBLIGATION TO 1
REGISTER AS AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN PRIN-2
CIPAL. 3
(a) O
BLIGATION.—The third sentence of section 2(a) 4
of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as 5
amended (22 U.S.C. 612(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘for 6
the period’’ and inserting ‘‘covering the period’’. 7
(b) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendment made by 8
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to any individual 9
who serves as the agent of a foreign principal under the 10
Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 11
U.S.C. 611 et seq.)— 12
(1) during the 5-year period ending on the date 13
of enactment of this Act; 14
(2) on the date of enactment of this Act; or 15
(3) after the date of enactment of this Act. 16
SEC. 3. PERMITTING ORDER REQUIRING COMPLIANCE TO 17
APPLY AFTER FARA ACTIVITIES HAVE 18
ENDED. 19
(a) C
ONTINUALCOMPLIANCE.—Section 8(f) of the 20
Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 21
U.S.C. 618(f)) is amended— 22
(1) by inserting after the first sentence the fol-23
lowing: ‘‘The Attorney General may make applica-24
tion for an order requiring a person to comply with 25
any appropriate provision of this Act or any regula-26
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tion thereunder while the person acts as an agent of 1
a foreign principal or at any time thereafter.’’; and 2
(2) by striking the period at the end and insert-3
ing the following: ‘‘, including an order requiring a 4
person to comply with section 2 with respect to any 5
period during which the person acts as the agent of 6
a foreign principal notwithstanding that the person 7
does not act as the agent of a foreign principal at 8
the time the court issues the order.’’. 9
(b) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 10
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to any individual 11
who serves as the agent of a foreign principal under the 12
Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 13
U.S.C. 611 et seq.)— 14
(1) during the 5-year period ending on the date 15
of enactment of this Act; 16
(2) on the date of enactment of this Act; or 17
(3) after the date of enactment of this Act. 18
SEC. 4. ANNUAL REPORTS RELATING TO COMPLIANCE. 19
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section— 20
(1) the term ‘‘covered action’’ means an action 21
taken by the Attorney General against a covered in-22
dividual to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration 23
Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.), 24
as amended by sections 2 and 3 of this Act; and 25
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(2) the term ‘‘covered individual’’ means an in-1
dividual who served as the agent of a foreign prin-2
cipal under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 3
1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.) during 4
the 5-year period ending on the date of enactment 5
of this Act. 6
(b) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 7
date of enactment of this Act, and each year from that 8
date thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to the 9
Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on For-10
eign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on the 11
Judiciary of the House of Representatives, as well as any 12
other Member of Congress upon request of such Member, 13
a written, machine-readable report that describes each 14
covered action taken by the Attorney General. 15
(c) O
RGANIZATION.—Each report submitted under 16
subsection (b) shall be organized by each covered action 17
taken and shall include, with respect to each covered ac-18
tion— 19
(1) the name of each covered individual against 20
whom the covered action was taken; 21
(2) a description of the rationale behind taking 22
the covered action; and 23
(3) the status of the covered action. 24
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