Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act of 2023

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5488 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5488 To amend chapter 111 of title 28, United States Code, to increase transparency and oversight of third-party funding by foreign persons, to prohibit third-party funding by foreign states and sovereign wealth funds, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 14, 2023 Mr. Johnson of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend chapter 111 of title 28, United States Code, to increase transparency and oversight of third-party funding by foreign persons, to prohibit third-party funding by foreign states and sovereign wealth funds, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act of 2023''. SEC. 2. TRANSPARENCY AND LIMITATIONS ON FOREIGN THIRD-PARTY LITIGATION FUNDING. (a) In General.--Chapter 111 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``Sec. 1660. Transparency and limitations on foreign third-party litigation funding ``(a) Definitions.--In this section-- ``(1) the term `foreign person'-- ``(A) means any person or entity that is not a United States person, as defined in section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801); and ``(B) does not include a foreign state or a sovereign wealth fund; ``(2) the term `foreign state' has the meaning given that term in section 1603; and ``(3) the term `sovereign wealth fund' means an investment fund owned or controlled by a foreign state, an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state (a