Title: Food Security is National Security Act of 2017
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Food Security is National Security Act of 2017
This bill amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to: (1) require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to consider the potential effects of a proposed or pending transaction on the security of the U.S. food and agriculture systems, including any effects on the availability of, access to, or safety and quality of food; and (2) include the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services as members of the committee.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 616 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 616

 To amend section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include 
  the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human 
   Services as members of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the 
United States and to require the Committee to consider the security of 
the food and agriculture systems of the United States as a factor to be 
  considered when determining to take action with respect to foreign 
                  investment, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2017

Mr. Grassley (for himself, Ms. Stabenow, and Mrs. Ernst) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include 
  the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human 
   Services as members of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the 
United States and to require the Committee to consider the security of 
the food and agriculture systems of the United States as a factor to be 
  considered when determining to take action with respect to foreign 
                  investment, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Food Security is National Security 
Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION OF FOOD INSECURITY IN DETERMINATIONS OF THE 
              COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES.

    Section 721(f) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
4565(f)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (10), by striking ``; and'' and inserting 
        a semicolon;
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (11) as paragraph (12); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (10) the following:
            ``(11) the potential effects of the proposed or pending 
        transaction on the security of the food and agriculture systems 
        of the United States, including any effects on the availability 
        of, access to, or safety and quality of food; and''.

SEC. 3. INCLUSION OF SECRETARIES OF AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH AND HUMAN 
              SERVICES ON THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE 
              UNITED STATES.

    Section 721(k)(2) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
4565(k)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (H), (I), and (J) as 
        subparagraphs (J), (K), and (L), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (G) the following:
                    ``(H) The Secretary of Agriculture.
                    ``(I) The Secretary of Health and Human 
                Services.''.
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