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Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee
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H.R. 620In committee
FARM Act
Introduced: Jan 22, 2025
Latest action date: Feb 28, 2025
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
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- Congress
- 119th Congress
- Introduced
- Jan 22, 2025
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Status detail: The most advanced recorded stage is committee consideration.
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What this bill does
Foreign Adversary Risk Management Act or the FARM Act
This bill places the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). It also requires CFIUS to review any investment that could result in foreign control of any U.S. agricultural business.
Further, the bill includes agricultural systems and supply chains in the definitions of critical infrastructure and critical technologies for the purposes of reviewing such investments.
The Department of Agriculture and the Government Accountability Office must each annually analyze and report on foreign influence in the U.S. agricultural industry.
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Foreign Trade and International Finance
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Congressional oversightFederal officialsGovernment studies and investigationsSupply chainU.S. and foreign investments
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Agriculture Committee
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Financial Services Committee
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
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IntroReferralLibrary of CongressReferred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
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