I 
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 Com-
mittee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Af-
fairs, 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 con-
cerned 
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. 
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 ‘‘Protecting American 
Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024’’. 
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SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE ON 
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN 
UNITED 
STATES 
AND 
NOTIFICATION 
RE-
QUIREMENT 
FOR 
PARTICULAR 
COVERED 
TRANSACTION. 
(a) INCLUSION
ON
THE
COMMITTEE.—Section 
721(k) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
4565(k)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) INCLUSION OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRI-
CULTURE.—For purposes of paragraph (2)(J), the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall be a member of the 
Committee with respect to a covered transaction 
that involves— 
‘‘(A) agricultural land; 
‘‘(B) agriculture biotechnology; or 
‘‘(C) the agriculture industry, including ag-
ricultural— 
‘‘(i) transportation; 
‘‘(ii) storage; and 
‘‘(iii) processing.’’. 
(b) NOTIFICATION
OF
A PARTICULAR COVERED 
TRANSACTION.—The Agricultural Foreign Investment 
Disclosure Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in section 2, by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(g)(1) The Secretary shall, to the maximum extent 
practicable, notify the Committee on Foreign Investment 
in the United States with respect to each covered trans-
action relating to agricultural land that the Secretary has 
reason to believe, based on information received from or 
in cooperation with the intelligence community— 
‘‘(A) may pose a risk to the national secu-
rity of the United States; and 
‘‘(B) requires a report to be submitted to 
the Secretary of Agriculture under subsection 
(a). 
‘‘(2) Under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall 
prioritize notification in the case of a covered trans-
action where a foreign country of concern or a for-
eign entity of concern acquires or transfers an inter-
est in agricultural land other than a security inter-
est.’’; and 
(2) in section 9— 
(A) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(B) in paragraph (6), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) the term ‘covered transaction’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 721(a) of the 
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Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
4565(a)); 
‘‘(8) the terms ‘foreign country of concern’ and 
‘foreign entity of concern’ have the meanings given 
such terms in section 10612(a) of the CHIPS Act 
of 2022 (42 U.S.C. 19221(a)), respectively; and 
‘‘(9) the term ‘intelligence community’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 3 of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003).’’. 
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