SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Promoting Agriculture 
Safeguards and Security Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘PASS Act 
of 2025’’. 
SEC. 
2. 
REVIEW 
OF 
AGRICULTURE-RELATED 
TRANS-
ACTIONS BY CFIUS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 721 of the Defense Pro-
duction Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4565) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘; 
and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 
(II) in clause (ii), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; 
and’’; and 
(III) by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(iii) any transaction described in 
clause (vi) or (vii) of subparagraph (B) 
proposed or pending on or after the date of 
the enactment of this clause.’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(vi) Any other investment, subject to 
regulations 
prescribed 
under 
subpara-
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graphs (D) and (E), by a foreign person in 
any unaffiliated United States business 
that is engaged in agriculture or bio-
technology related to agriculture. 
‘‘(vii) Subject to subparagraphs (C) 
and (E), the purchase or lease by, or a 
concession to, a foreign person of private 
real estate that is— 
‘‘(I) located in the United States; 
and 
‘‘(II) used in agriculture.’’; 
(iii) in subparagraph (C)(i), by strik-
ing ‘‘subparagraph (B)(ii)’’ and inserting 
‘‘clause (ii) or (vii) of subparagraph (B)’’; 
(iv) in subparagraph (D)— 
(I) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘sub-
paragraph 
(B)(iii)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘clauses (iii) and (vi) of subparagraph 
(B)’’; 
(II) in clause (iii)(I), by striking 
‘‘subparagraph (B)(iii)’’ and inserting 
‘‘clauses (iii) and (vi) of subparagraph 
(B)’’; 
(III) in clause (iv)(I), by striking 
‘‘subparagraph (B)(iii)’’ each place it 
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appears and inserting ‘‘clauses (iii) 
and (vi) of subparagraph (B)’’; and 
(IV) in clause (v), by striking 
‘‘subparagraph (B)(iii)’’ and inserting 
‘‘clauses (iii) and (vi) of subparagraph 
(B)’’; and 
(v) in subparagraph (E), by striking 
‘‘clauses (ii) and (iii)’’ and inserting 
‘‘clauses (ii), (iii), (iv), and (vii)’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(14) AGRICULTURE.—The term ‘agriculture’ 
has the meaning given such term in section 3 of the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
203).’’; 
(2) in subsection (k)(2)— 
(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (H), 
(I), and (J), as subparagraphs (I), (J), and 
(K), respectively; and 
(B) by inserting after subparagraph (G) 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(H) The Secretary of Agriculture.’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(r) PROHIBITION WITH RESPECT
TO AGRICUL-
TURAL COMPANIES AND REAL ESTATE.— 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of this section, if the Committee, in con-
ducting a review and investigation under this sec-
tion, determines that a transaction described in 
clause (i), (vi), or (vii) of subsection (a)(4)(B) would 
result in control by a covered foreign person of or 
investment by a covered foreign person in a United 
States business engaged in agriculture or private 
real estate used in agriculture, the President shall 
prohibit such transaction. 
‘‘(2) WAIVER.—The President may waive, on a 
case-by-case basis, the requirement to prohibit a 
transaction under paragraph (1), not less than 30 
days after the President determines and reports to 
the relevant committees of jurisdiction that it is vital 
to the national security interests of the United 
States to waive such prohibition. 
‘‘(3) DEFINED TERMS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) COVERED
FOREIGN
PERSON.—The 
term ‘covered foreign person’ means a person 
that is— 
‘‘(i) acting on behalf of or otherwise 
directed by the government of a prohibited 
country; 
‘‘(ii) a citizen of a prohibited country; 
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‘‘(iii) an entity that— 
‘‘(I) is registered or organized in 
a prohibited country; or 
‘‘(II) has a principal place of 
business in a prohibited country; or 
‘‘(iv) a subsidiary of an entity de-
scribed in clause (iii). 
‘‘(B) PROHIBITED
COUNTRY.—The term 
‘prohibited country’ means any of the following: 
‘‘(i) The People’s Republic of China. 
‘‘(ii) The Russian Federation. 
‘‘(iii) The Islamic Republic of Iran. 
‘‘(iv) The Democratic People’s Repub-
lic of Korea.’’. 
(b) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 
days thereafter, the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit 
to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
and Forestry of the Senate a report on the risks that for-
eign purchases of United States businesses engaged in ag-
riculture (as such term is defined in section 3 of the Fair 
Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203)) pose to 
the agricultural sector of the United States. 
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