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To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to ensure online access to the registration statements filed under such Act, and for other purposes.

H.R. 1566 · 116th Congress · Mar 6, 2019 · Lineage

A BILL

Section 1 Ensuring online access to registration statements

(a)
Requiring statements filed by registrants To be in digitized format— Section 2(g) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 612(g)) is amended by striking “in electronic form” and inserting “in a digitized format which will enable the Attorney General to meet the requirements of section 6(d)(1) (relating to public access to an electronic database of statements and updates)”.
(b)
Requirements for electronic database of registration statements and updates— Section 6(d)(1) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 616(d)(1)) is amended—
(1)
in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking “to the extent technically practicable,”; and
(2)
in subparagraph (A), by striking “includes the information” and inserting “includes in a digitized format the information”.
(c)
Effective date— The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to statements filed on or after the expiration of the 180-day period which begins on the date of the enactment of this Act.