To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, to prohibit a person from acting as an agent of certain terrorist entities.

Amends the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to prohibit any person from acting as an agent of a foreign principal that is: (1) the government of a foreign country that the Secretary of State has determined to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism; (2) a foreign political party of such a government; or (3) a partnership, association, or other combination of persons organized under the laws of or having its principal place of business in a foreign country of such a government.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5797 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5797

 To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, to 
    prohibit a person from acting as an agent of certain terrorist 
                               entities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 2006

Mr. McCotter (for himself, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Mr. Lincoln Diaz-
Balart of Florida, and Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, to 
    prohibit a person from acting as an agent of certain terrorist 
                               entities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON ACTING AS AGENT OF CERTAIN FOREIGN 
              PRINCIPALS.

    The Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 
611 et seq.), is amended by inserting after section 7 the following new 
section:

``SEC. 7A. PROHIBITION ON ACTING AS AGENT OF CERTAIN FOREIGN 
              PRINCIPALS.

    ``No person shall act as an agent of a foreign principal in a case 
in which the foreign principal is--
            ``(1) the government of a foreign country that the 
        Secretary of State has determined, for the purposes of section 
        6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979, section 620A of 
        the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, section 40 of the Arms 
        Export Control Act, or other provision of law, is a government 
        that has repeatedly provided support for acts of international 
        terrorism;
            ``(2) a foreign political party of a government described 
        in paragraph (1); or
            ``(3) a partnership, association, corporation, 
        organization, or other combination of persons organized under 
        the laws of or having its principal place of business in a 
        foreign country the government of which is described in 
        paragraph (1).''.
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