I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8274 
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 
JULY 1, 2022 
Ms. STEFANIK (for herself, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, 
Mr. WENSTRUP, and Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 
and in addition 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 juris-
diction 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 2022’’ or the ‘‘PASS Act 
of 2022’’. 
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)(5)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘means, subject’’ and in-
serting the following: ‘‘means— 
‘‘(A) subject’’; 
(B) by striking the period at the end and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) includes— 
‘‘(i) the sector of agriculture (as such 
term is defined in section 3 of the Fair 
Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
203)); and 
‘‘(ii) biotechnology related to the agri-
culture sector.’’; 
(2) in subsection (k)(2)— 
(A) by redesignating subparagraph (J) as 
subparagraph (K); and 
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(B) by inserting after subparagraph (I) the 
following: 
‘‘(J) The Secretary of Agriculture.’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(r) PROHIBITION WITH RESPECT
TO AGRICUL-
TURAL COMPANIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of this section, persons who are acting on 
behalf of or otherwise directed by the government of 
a prohibited country may not carry out any merger, 
acquisition, or takeover that could result in foreign 
control of a United States agricultural company. 
‘‘(2) PROHIBITED
COUNTRY.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘prohibited country’ means each of 
the following: 
‘‘(A) China. 
‘‘(B) Russia. 
‘‘(C) Iran. 
‘‘(D) North 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-
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eign purchases of agricultural companies pose to the agri-
cultural sector of the United States. 
Æ 
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