US Congress House Bill 5122 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on November 15 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-11-15 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Imposes additional requirements related to the public database of registrations that are filed, as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), by agents that engage in certain political activities for foreign principals. Specifically, the Department of Justice shall establish the National Foreign Agents Database, which shall be a publicly searchable, sortable, and machine-processable database of the information contained in such registrations. Current law requires a database of registrations to have search and sort functions only to the extent technically practicable. FARA-required registrations shall be filed in an electronic, structured data format. Electronically filed registrations shall be immediately available to the public over the internet.

FARM Act of 2019 Foreign Agents Registration Modernization Act of 2019

Rep. Ken Buck [R-CO]

Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-11-15	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2019-11-15	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5122/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr5122/BILLS-116hr5122ih.pdf