Foreign Influence Transparency Act
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What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Mar 21, 2018)
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.
What just happenedMar 21, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in SenateMar 21, 2018
- Mar 21, 2018IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Foreign Relations Committee - Mar 21, 2018IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate