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PASS Act of 2023

Introduced: January 31, 2023 Introduced by: Rounds, Mike Republican · South Dakota See on congress.gov

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Feb 28, 2023

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 118-359.

Jan 31, 2023

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Jan 31, 2023

Introduced in Senate

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Promoting Agriculture Safeguards and Security Act of 2023 or the PASS Act of 2023

This bill establishes requirements to address the national security risk to the agricultural sector of the United States.

Specifically, the bill prohibits persons who are acting on behalf of China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea from purchasing or investing in U.S. agricultural land and companies. The President may waive this prohibition, on a case-by-case basis, if the President determines that the waiver is vital to U.S. national security interests.

The bill also places the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and requires CFIUS to review certain transactions involving investments by foreign persons in the U.S. agricultural sector.

Additionally, the Department of Agriculture must report on the risks that foreign purchases of U.S. businesses engaged in agriculture pose to the agricultural sector of the United States.

What's happening now February 28, 2023

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 118-359.

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