HR620Referred to Committee

FARM Act

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Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-01-22
Introduced
29
Cosponsors
HR
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Sponsor

Ronny Jackson
Ronny Jackson
Republican · TX · Representative
Votes with party: 95.6% (542 recorded votes)

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.

2025-02-28

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Plain-English Summary

Foreign Adversary Risk Management Act or the FARM Act This bill places the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). It also requires CFIUS to review any investment that could result in foreign control of any U.S. agricultural business. Further, the bill includes agricultural systems and supply chains in the definitions of critical infrastructure and critical technologies for the purposes of reviewing such investments. The Department of Agriculture and the Government Accountability Office must each annually analyze and report on foreign influence in the U.S. agricultural industry.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Foreign Trade and International Finance
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