A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended to require news outlets that are agents of a foreign principal to provide adequate disclosure of their status.

This bill requires a news outlet that is an agent of a foreign principal to provide certain disclosures. Specifically, any news outlet that is required to register as an agent of a foreign principal must include, in any transmission in or into the United States, that the transmission is made by an agent of a foreign principal and that additional infomation is on file with the Department of Justice.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4207 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4207

  To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended to 
require news outlets that are agents of a foreign principal to provide 
                  adequate disclosure of their status.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 2, 2020

  Ms. Harris (for herself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr. Sasse) 
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 
require news outlets that are agents of a foreign principal to provide 
                  adequate disclosure of their status.

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

SECTION 1. DISCLOSURE OF STATUS BY NEWS OUTLETS THAT ARE AGENTS OF A 
              FOREIGN PRINCIPAL.

    Section 4(b) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as 
amended (22 U.S.C. 614(b)) is amended by inserting after the first 
sentence the following: ``It shall be unlawful for any news or press 
service or association, newspaper, magazine, periodical, or other 
publication that is an agent of a foreign principal and required to 
register under the provisions of this Act to fail to include in any 
transmission in the United States mails or any transmission made by any 
means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce (including a 
transmission by radio, television, or the internet) that is transmitted 
into the United States a conspicuous statement that the transmission is 
made by an agent of a foreign principal, and that additional 
information is on file with the Department of Justice, Washington, 
District of Columbia.''.
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