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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9395 
To amend the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 to 
require additional reporting and public disclosure of information. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 1, 2022 
Mr. POCAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure 
Act of 1978 to require additional reporting and public 
disclosure of information. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Farmland Security Act 
of 2022’’. 
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SEC. 2. REPORTS AND PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INFORMA-
TION ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN AGRICUL-
TURAL LAND. 
(a) REPORTS.—Section 6 of the Agricultural Foreign 
Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 3505) is 
amended— 
(1) by striking the section designation and 
heading and all that follows through ‘‘Not later 
than’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘SEC. 6. REPORTS. 
‘‘(a) TO STATES.—Not later than’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this subsection, and annually 
thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report 
on foreign investments in agricultural land in the United 
States, including a description of the impact that foreign 
ownership of agricultural land has on family farms, rural 
communities, and the domestic food supply.’’. 
(b) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION.—Sec-
tion 7 of the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure 
Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 3506) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘SEC. 7. PUBLIC DATABASE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of the Farmland Security Act of 
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2022, the Secretary shall establish, and make publicly 
available on the Department of Agriculture website, a 
database that— 
‘‘(1) contains data from each report submitted 
to the Secretary under section 2 in the preceding 
calendar year; and 
‘‘(2) not later than 10 days after the submis-
sion of any report under section 2, shall be updated 
with the data in that report. 
‘‘(b) DATABASE ORGANIZATION.—The database de-
scribed in paragraph (1) shall organize information into 
the following categories with respect to a foreign person 
who has submitted a report under section 2: 
‘‘(1) If the foreign person is an individual, the 
citizenship of the foreign person. 
‘‘(2) If the foreign person is not an individual 
or a government— 
‘‘(A) the nature of the legal entity that is 
the foreign person; 
‘‘(B) the country in which the foreign per-
son is registered or organized; and 
‘‘(C) the principal place of business of the 
foreign person.’’. 
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