Repelling Encroachment by Foreigners into U.S. Elections Act

H.R. 6249 · 115th Congress · Jun 27, 2018 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act, and for other purposes.

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(a)

Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Repelling Encroachment by Foreigners into U.S. Elections Act” or the “REFUSE Act”.

(b)

Table of contents— The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

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Jun 27, 2018viewing Introduced in House Ms. Kaptur (for herself, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Ms. Norton, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Jones, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Ms. Maxine Waters of California, Mr. McNerney, and Ms. Pingree) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

Repelling Encroachment by Foreigners into U.S. Elections Act

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

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