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S. 2583 115th Congress Senate

Foreign Influence Transparency Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to limit the exemption from the registration requirements of such Act for persons engaging in activ… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to limit the exemption from the registration requirements of such Act for persons engaging in activities in furtherance of bona fide religious, scholastic, academic, or scientific pursuits or the fine arts to activities which do not promote the political agenda of a foreign government, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to clarify the disclosures of foreign gifts by institutions, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 21, 2018 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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 Latest action March 21, 2018

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 5336 Foreign Influence Transparency Act
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Cotton, Tom
Arkansas · Mar 21, 2018
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2583: Foreign Influence Transparency Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2583/
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"S. 2583: Foreign Influence Transparency Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2583/.
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S. 2583, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2583/.
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