H.R. 5122: FARM Act of 2019
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H.R. 5122: FARM Act of 2019
116th Congress · introduced 2019-11-15 · International Affairs · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2019-11-15 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Buck, Ken [R-CO-4] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
FARM Act of 2019
Plain summary
Foreign Agents Registration Modernization Act of 2019 or the FARM Act of 2019 This bill imposes additional requirements related to the public database of registrations that are filed, as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), by agents that engage in certain political activities for foreign principals. Specifically, the Department of Justice shall establish the National Foreign Agents Database, which shall be a publicly searchable, sortable, and machine-processable database of the information contained in such registrations. Current law requires a database of registrations to have search and sort functions only to the extent technically practicable. FARA-required registrations shall be filed in an electronic, structured data format. Electronically filed registrations shall be immediately available to the public over the internet.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Buck, Ken [R-CO-4] · 1 cosponsors
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Ro Khanna (D-CA)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116hr5122.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/hr>
Record fed-us-cong116-hr5122 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116