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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 9442 

To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 and the Agricultural Foreign 

Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 with respect to foreign investments 

in United States agriculture. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

AUGUST 30, 2024 

Mr. NEWHOUSE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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 

A BILL 

To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 and the 

Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 

with respect to foreign investments in United States 

agriculture. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting American 

5 Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE ON 

2 COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN 

3 UNITED STATES AND NOTIFICATION RE4 QUIREMENT FOR PARTICULAR COVERED 

5 TRANSACTION. 

6 (a) INCLUSION ON THE COMMITTEE.—Section 

7 721(k) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 

8 4565(k)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘(8) INCLUSION OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRI10 CULTURE.—For purposes of paragraph (2)(J), the 

11 Secretary of Agriculture shall be a member of the 

12 Committee with respect to a covered transaction 

13 that involves— 

14 ‘‘(A) agricultural land; 

15 ‘‘(B) agriculture biotechnology; or 

16 ‘‘(C) the agriculture industry, including ag17 ricultural— 

18 ‘‘(i) transportation; 

19 ‘‘(ii) storage; and 

20 ‘‘(iii) processing.’’. 

21 (b) NOTIFICATION OF A PARTICULAR COVERED

22 TRANSACTION.—The Agricultural Foreign Investment 

23 Disclosure Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) is amend24 ed— 

25 (1) in section 2, by adding at the end the fol26 lowing: 


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1 ‘‘(g)(1) The Secretary shall, to the maximum extent 

2 practicable, notify the Committee on Foreign Investment 

3 in the United States with respect to each covered trans4 action relating to agricultural land that the Secretary has 

5 reason to believe, based on information received from or 

6 in cooperation with the intelligence community— 

7 ‘‘(A) may pose a risk to the national secu8 rity of the United States; and 

9 ‘‘(B) requires a report to be submitted to 

10 the Secretary of Agriculture under subsection 

11 (a). 

12 ‘‘(2) Under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall 

13 prioritize notification in the case of a covered trans14 action where a foreign country of concern or a for15 eign entity of concern acquires or transfers an inter16 est in agricultural land other than a security inter17 est.’’; and 

18 (2) in section 9— 

19 (A) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’; 

20 (B) in paragraph (6), by striking the pe21 riod at the end and inserting a semicolon; and 

22 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

23 ‘‘(7) the term ‘covered transaction’ has the 

24 meaning given such term in section 721(a) of the 


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1 Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 

2 4565(a)); 

3 ‘‘(8) the terms ‘foreign country of concern’ and 

4 ‘foreign entity of concern’ have the meanings given 

5 such terms in section 10612(a) of the CHIPS Act 

6 of 2022 (42 U.S.C. 19221(a)), respectively; and 

7 ‘‘(9) the term ‘intelligence community’ has the 

8 meaning given such term in section 3 of the Na9 tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003).’’. 

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