FARM Act has not moved since its introduction on Jan 22, 2025, with cosponsors from both parties
IntroducedJan 22, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 93 words.
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 analyze and report on foreign influence in the U.S. agricultural industry.
Context
- Committees
- Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
- Policy area
- Foreign Trade and International Finance: 15 of 908 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.7%)
- Sponsor
- 1 of 70 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in senate · 524 words
- Subjects
- Congressional oversightFederal officialsGovernment studies and investigationsSupply chainU.S. and foreign investments
- Latest action
- Jan 22, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 1
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Related, per CRS or House · 1
- 119th H.R. 620 FARM Act R · Introduced
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]