I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 683 
To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary 
of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United 
States and require review of certain agricultural transactions, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 31, 2023 
Ms. STEFANIK (for herself, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. COSTA, Mr. FITZPATRICK, 
Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Geor-
gia, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr. MOORE of Alabama, Mr. RUTHERFORD, 
Mr. BAIRD, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mr. MOLINARO, Mr. 
NEWHOUSE, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. MILLER of Ohio, Mr. DESJARLAIS, Mr. 
LAMALFA, Mr. COLE, and Ms. TENNEY) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addi-
tion to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Energy and Commerce, 
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 to include 
the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on For-
eign Investment in the United States and require review 
of certain agricultural transactions, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Promoting Agriculture 
Safeguards and Security Act of 2023’’ or the ‘‘PASS Act 
of 2023’’. 
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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