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Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary REGISTRATION OF REPRESENTATIVES OF HOSTILE FOREIGN PRINCIPALS This bill prohibits a person from acting as an agent of a hostile foreign principal unless the person has filed with the Tennessee ethics commission ("commission") a true and complete registration statement and supplements to such statements as required by this bill. As used in this bill, a "hostile foreign principal" means any of the following: A government of the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of North Korea, or the Islamic Republic of Iran ("hostile foreign nation"), a political party of a hostile foreign nation, or any member of a political party of a hostile foreign nation. A nonresident alien of a hostile foreign nation. A partnership, association, corporation, organization, or other combination of persons organized under the law of or having its principal place of business in a hostile foreign nation. A domestic partnership, association, corporation, organization, or other combination of persons that is at least 20% beneficially owned by a hostile foreign government, a nonresident alien of a hostile foreign nation, or an entity organized under the laws of or having its principal place of business in a hostile foreign nation. This bill requires each person who is an agent of a hostile foreign principal to, within 10 days after becoming an agent, file with the commission a registration statement, under oath, on a form prescribed by the commission. The obligation of an agent of a hostile foreign principal to file a registration statement must, after the tenth day of becoming an agent, continue from day to day, and the termination of such status does not relieve such agent from the obligation to file a registration statement for the period during which the pe