1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Defending Elections From Foreign Efforts to Negate Democracy Act or the DEFEND Act . 2. Prohibiting disbursements by certain foreign nationals to compensate persons engaging in internet activity promoting, supporting, attacking, or opposing the election of a candidate for public office (a) Disbursements described Section 319(a)(1) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 ( 52 U.S.C. 30121(a)(1) ) is amended— (1) by striking or at the end of subparagraph (B); and (2) by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the following: (C) an expenditure; (D) an independent expenditure; (E) a disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 304(f)(3)); or (F) a disbursement by a covered foreign national (as defined in subsection (c)) to compensate any person for internet activity that promotes, supports, attacks or opposes the election of a clearly identified candidate for Federal, State, or local office (regardless of whether the activity communication contains express advocacy or the functional equivalent of express advocacy); or . (b) Definition Section 319 of such Act ( 52 U.S.C. 30121 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (c) Covered foreign national defined (1) In general In this subsection, the term covered foreign national means— (A) a foreign principal (as defined in section 1(b) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 ( 22 U.S.C. 611(b) ) that is a government of a foreign country or a foreign political party; (B) any person who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or servant, or any person who acts in any other capacity at the order, request, or under the direction or control, of a foreign principal described in subparagraph (A) or of a person any of whose activities are directly or indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed, or subsidized in whole or in major part by a foreign principal described in subparagraph (A)