Section 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Dual Citizenship Disclosure Act.
(a) Requirement
Not later than 90 days after taking the oath of office of a Member of Congress for a Congress, a Member who is a foreign national shall file with the appropriate congressional ethics committee a statement describing the Member’s status as a foreign national.
(b) Exception
Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to a Member of Congress who filed a statement required under subsection (a) during a previous Congress.
(c) Penalty for noncompliance
If a Member of Congress who is a foreign national fails to file the statement required under subsection (a), or if the appropriate congressional ethics committee determines that the statement is defective, the committee may impose a penalty on the Member of not more than $2,500, in addition to any other penalty applicable under the Rules of the House of Representatives or the Standing Rules of the Senate, as the case may be.
(1) Appropriate congressional ethics committee
In this Act, the term appropriate congressional ethics committee means—
(A) the Committee on Ethics of the House of Representatives, in the case of a Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress; and
(B) the Select Committee on Ethics of the Senate, in the case of a Senator.
(2) Foreign national
In this Act, term foreign national means a national of a foreign state, as such terms are defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).
(3) Member of Congress
In this Act, the term Member of Congress means a Senator or a Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress.
(e) Effective date
This Act shall apply with respect to the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress and each succeeding Congress.