1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Adversaries Internationally from Disbursing Advertising Dollars Act or the PAID AD Act . 2. Purpose The purpose of this Act is to protect the integrity of American democracy by expanding the scope of the prohibition on political advertising by foreign principals in order to uphold the well-established standard of the United States Supreme Court that foreign nationals may lawfully be excluded from participating in certain electoral activities. 3. Sense of congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the growing threat of malicious interference in our elections by foreign actors requires the Congress and the Federal Election Commission to take meaningful action to ensure that laws and regulations protect against influence by foreign nationals in activity fundamental to our democracy; (2) the Supreme Court has long held that there is a compelling national interest in preventing foreign influence in the United States political process and that foreign citizens lack a constitutional right to participate in, and thus may be excluded from, activities of democratic self-government ; and (3) the current prohibition on foreign nationals contributing to political campaigns and advertisements must be updated. 4. Expansion of limitation on foreign nationals (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))