Foreign Influence Transparency Act
Latest action · Mar 21, 2018 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 21, 2018
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Foreign Influence Transparency Act
This bill amends the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to limit the exemption from foreign agent registration with the Department of Justice for a person engaging in activities in furtherance of religious, scholastic, academic, or scientific pursuits or of the fine arts to only those activities that do not promote a foreign government's political agenda.
The Higher Education Act of 1965 is amended to require institutions to report to the Department of Education a gift or contract from a foreign source whose annual value is $50,000 or more. The fair market value of in-kind-gifts is included in such limit. (Currently, a report is due if the annual value is $250,000 or more, considered alone or in combination with all other gifts from or contracts with a foreign source.)
A report shall: (1) include the contents of any such contracts, and (2) make such contents available for public disclosure.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Mar 21, 2018.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AR | Tom Cotton | Original | Mar 21, 2018 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 21, 2018Introduced in Senate
- Mar 21, 2018Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5336 | Foreign Influence Transparency Act | Related bill | Mar 20, 2018 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Art, artists, authorship
- Cultural exchanges and relations
- General science and technology matters
- Government studies and investigations
- Higher education
- International Affairs
- International exchange and broadcasting
- Performing arts
- Public participation and lobbying
- Religion
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 21, 2018Introduced in Senate
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