States Introduce More “Baby” FARA Bills

POSTED IN FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION ACT, STATE LAW

Over the past several weeks, legislatures in Arizona, California, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Tennessee have introduced bills that mirror the federal Foreign Agents Registration Act ("FARA"). There has been a trend in the states to enact so-called "baby FARA" laws that apply to foreign influenced political activity in the states, although until now those laws generally focused narrowly on regulation of political contributions.

In this client alert, we summarize these recently introduced bills.

• States Introduce More "Baby" FARA Bills