Skip to main content
CivicGate

HR 1713
Passed House Re-checks Congress.gov for new actions and updates the bill's status, and fills in any sponsors, committees, or related bills that are missing. It does not re-pull sponsors/cosponsors/committees/related — those rarely change — and it skips all work if nothing has changed upstream, so it's cheap to click.

Agricultural Risk Review Act of 2025

Introduced Feb 27, 2025

Latest action (Jun 24, 2025) Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Referred to
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Foreign Affairs Committee Energy and Commerce Committee Financial Services Committee
Policy area
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Legislative subjects (11)
AsiaChinaDepartment of AgricultureEuropeFederal officialsIranLand transfersMiddle EastNorth KoreaRussiaU.S. and foreign investments

Summary

This bill amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to add the Secretary of Agriculture as a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) when reviewing transactions involving agricultural land, agricultural biotechnology, or the agriculture industry. The bill establishes a process for the Secretary of Agriculture to notify CFIUS of "reportable agricultural land transactions"—acquisitions of agricultural land by foreign persons from China, North Korea, Russia, or Iran that are required to be reported under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978. Upon receiving such notification, CFIUS must determine whether the transaction is a covered transaction and, if so, decide whether to initiate a review or take other authorized action. The special requirements for monitoring acquisitions by persons from the specified countries automatically terminate if those countries are removed from the government's list of foreign adversaries.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
20 cosponsors

Actions (15)
  1. Jun 24, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. · senate
  2. Jun 23, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
  3. Jun 23, 2025 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2865) · house
  4. Jun 23, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2865)
  5. Jun 23, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1713. · house
  6. Jun 23, 2025 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2865-2866) · house
  7. Jun 23, 2025 Mrs. Wagner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. · house
  8. Jun 3, 2025 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 99. · house
  9. Jun 3, 2025 Committee on Foreign Affairs discharged. · house
  10. Jun 3, 2025 Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged. · house
  11. Jun 3, 2025 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 119-129, Part I. · house
  12. Mar 5, 2025 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 48 - 0. · house
  13. Mar 5, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
  14. Feb 27, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. · house
  15. Feb 27, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HR 1576 — Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2025 (shares 11 subjects)
  • S 2296 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (shares 9 subjects)
  • HR 3838 — Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (shares 9 subjects)
  • HR 7006 — Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 8 subjects)
  • HR 5167 — Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (shares 8 subjects)
  • HR 5300 — Department of State Policy Provisions Act (shares 8 subjects)
  • HR 5342 — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 8 subjects)
  • S 2975 — PIPELINE Safety Act of 2025 (shares 7 subjects)

Text versions (4)
  • Referred in Senate · Jun 24, 2025
  • Engrossed in House · Jun 23, 2025
  • Reported in House · Jun 3, 2025
  • Introduced in House · Feb 27, 2025

Full text

AN ACT

To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of Agriculture as a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, 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 “Agricultural Risk Review Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE ON THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES.

Section 721(k) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4565(k)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(8) Inclusion of the secretary of agriculture.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall be a member of the Committee with respect to a covered transaction that involves—

“(A) agricultural land;

“(B) agriculture biotechnology; or

“(C) the agriculture industry, including agricultural transportation, storage, and processing.”.

SEC. 3. CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRANSACTIONS.

Section 721(b)(1) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4565(b)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(I) Consideration of certain agricultural land transactions.—

“(i) In general.—After receiving notification from the Secretary of Agriculture of a reportable agricultural land transaction, the Committee shall determine—

“(I) whether the transaction is a covered transaction; and

“(II) if the Committee determines that the transaction is a covered transaction, whether the Committee should initiate a review pursuant to subparagraph (D), or take another action authorized under this section, with respect to the reportable agricultural land transaction.

“(ii) Reportable agricultural land transaction.—In this subparagraph, the term ‘reportable agricultural land transaction’ means a transaction—

“(I) that the Secretary of Agriculture has reason to believe is a covered transaction, based on information from or in cooperation with the intelligence community;

“(II) that involves the acquisition of an interest in agricultural land by a foreign person of the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, or the Islamic Republic of Iran; and

“(III) with respect to which a person is required to submit a report to the Secretary of Agriculture under section 2(a) of the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978.

“(iii) Sunset.—The requirements under this subparagraph shall terminate, with respect to a foreign person of the respective foreign country, on the date that the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, or the Islamic Republic of Iran, as the case may be, is removed from the list of foreign adversaries in section 791.4 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations.”.

Passed the House of Representatives June 23, 2025.

Attest:

Clerk. 119th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 1713

AN ACT

To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of Agriculture as a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, and for other purposes.

Comments

Comments

Loading comments…