Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Preventing Adversary Influence, Disinformation, and Obscured Foreign Financing Act of 2022” or the “PAID OFF Act of 2022”.
Preventing Adversary Influence, Disinformation, and Obscured Foreign Financing Act of 2022
A BILL
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, to modify requirements under that Act relating to exemptions, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Treatment of exemptions under FARA
Definition— Section 1 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(q) The term “country of concern” means—
“(1) the People's Republic of China;
“(2) the Russian Federation;
“(3) the Islamic Republic of Iran;
“(4) the Democratic People's Republic of Korea;
“(5) the Republic of Cuba; and
“(6) the Syrian Arab Republic.”
Exemptions— Section 3 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 613), is amended, in the matter preceding subsection (a), by inserting “, except that the exemptions under subsections (d)(1) and (h) shall not apply to any agent of a foreign principal that is a country of concern” before the colon.
Sunset— The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall terminate on October 1, 2025.