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119-s-1623119th Congress

Countering Corrupt Political (CCP) Influence Act

Sponsored By: Senator Scott, Rick [R-FL]

Introduced

Summary

Creates a reciprocal transparency regime requiring certain foreign governments to notify the U.S. about official meetings with state and local officials and official visits to U.S. educational and research institutions.

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  • State and local officials and colleges or research centers will get advance notice. Foreign missions must tell the State Department at least 96 hours ahead and include the date, location, participating officials, and the visit or meeting purpose.
  • The notification duty covers all members of a covered country's U.S. foreign mission, members of its permanent U.N. mission, and officials traveling to the U.S. for official business. Covered countries named are China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Afghanistan while under Taliban control.
  • The Secretary of State must send monthly reports to specified congressional committees. Within four years and six months several agencies will produce a joint unclassified threat assessment with recommendations about U.S. diplomats, and the reporting rules sunset after five years.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Joint threat reports on covered countries

This bill would require the Secretary of State, DNI, Defense, Attorney General, Treasury, and Homeland Security to jointly submit a threat assessment for each covered country. The report would be unclassified with an optional classified annex and must be delivered not later than 4 years and 6 months after enactment. The report would include recommendations about U.S. diplomat policies. This requirement would be subject to the section's five-year sunset.

New notice rules for foreign visits

This bill would require the State Department to make listed foreign missions give at least 96 hours notice before meetings with U.S. state or local officials or official visits to U.S. colleges or research centers. Notices would list the date, location, names of foreign participants, and the purpose. The State Department would send monthly reports to four congressional committees. The first monthly report would include similar information collected since 2019. These rules would take effect on enactment and expire five years later. Afghanistan would be covered only while under Taliban control.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Scott, Rick [R-FL]

FL • R

Cosponsors

  • Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]

    TN • R

    Sponsored 5/6/2025

  • Sen. Moody, Ashley [R-FL]

    FL • R

    Sponsored 5/13/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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