47 U.S.C. § 624
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§ 624. Disclosure requirements for United States-based foreign media outlets
- (a) Not later than 60 days after August 13, 2018 , and not less frequently than every 6 months thereafter, a United States-based foreign media outlet shall submit to the Commission a report that contains the following information:
- (1) The name of such outlet.
- (2) A description of the relationship of such outlet to the foreign principal of such outlet, including a description of the legal structure of such relationship and any funding that such outlet receives from such principal.
- (b) Not later than 90 days after August 13, 2018 , and not less frequently than every 6 months thereafter, the Commission shall transmit to Congress a report that summarizes the contents of the reports submitted by United States-based foreign media outlets under subsection (a) during the preceding 6-month period.
- (c) The Commission shall make publicly available on the internet website of the Commission each report submitted by a United States-based foreign media outlet under subsection (a) not later than the earlier of—
- (1) the date that is 30 days after the outlet submits the report to the Commission; or
- (2) the date on which the Commission transmits to Congress under subsection (b) the report covering the 6-month period during which the report of the outlet was submitted to the Commission under subsection (a).
- (d) In this section:
- (1) The term “foreign principal” has the meaning given such term in section 1(b)(1) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 ( 22 U.S.C. 611(b)(1) ).
- (2) The term “United States-based foreign media outlet” means an entity that—
- (A) produces or distributes video programming (as defined in section 522 of this title ) that is transmitted, or intended for transmission, by a multichannel video programming distributor (as defined in such section) to consumers in the United States; and
- (B) would be an agent of a foreign principal (as defined in paragraph (1)) for purposes of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 ( 22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.) but for section 1(d) of such Act ( 22 U.S.C. 611(d) ).
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