HR 3378 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

Agricultural Security Risk Review Act

Introduced May 16, 2023 Originated House Sponsor Frank D. Lucas R-OK

Latest action · Dec 19, 2024 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 783.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMay 16, 2023
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Agricultural Security Risk Review Act

This bill expands the membership of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to include the Secretary of Agriculture on all transactions related to the purchase of agriculture land, agriculture biotechnology, and any other transaction related to the agriculture industry in the United States. (The committee reviews the national security implications of certain foreign investments in U.S. businesses or real estate, including critical infrastructure or technologies.)

Cosponsors 6

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 12, 2023 to Sep 11, 2024.

Seat	Cosponsor	Signed on
R-NE	Don Bacon	Sep 12, 2023
R-IA	Zachary Nunn	Sep 18, 2023
R-KY	Andy Barr	Sep 19, 2023
D-CA	Brad Sherman	Sep 19, 2023
D-MI	Elissa Slotkin	Jan 3, 2024
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester	Sep 11, 2024

Committees 3

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Financial Services Committee	Referred May 16, 2023Markup Sep 20, 2023Reported Dec 5, 2024
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred May 16, 2023 Dec 5, 2024Discharged Dec 19, 2024
	Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee	Referred May 19, 2023
House	Foreign Affairs Committee	Referred May 16, 2023 Dec 5, 2024Discharged Dec 19, 2024

Actions 11

Everything that happened, newest first.

Dec 19, 2024Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
Dec 19, 2024Committee on Foreign Affairs discharged.
Dec 19, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 783.
Dec 5, 2024Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 118-798, Part I.
Dec 5, 2024House Committee on Energy and Commerce Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 19, 2024.
Dec 5, 2024House Committee on Foreign Affairs Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 19, 2024.
Sep 20, 2023Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Sep 20, 2023Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 42 - 0.
May 19, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
May 16, 2023Introduced in House
May 16, 2023Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Foreign Affairs, 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.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Committee report

H. Rept. 118-798

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

Nov 15, 2023H.R. 3378, Agricultural Security Risk Review ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on September 20, 2023

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would add the Ag Secretary to CFIUS.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 82, May 16, 2023, page H2378.

Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 118-21	THE DANGER CHINA POSES TO AMERICAN AGRICULTURE187 pages	Agriculture Committee	Mar 20, 2024
Serial No. 118-44	OVERSIGHT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES (CFIUS) AND OTHER EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE UNITED STATES78 pages	Financial Services Committee	Sep 13, 2023

CRS reports 2

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 2

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R48094	Foreign Ownership, Control, and Influence (FOCI) Risks in the Food and Agriculture Sector	Report	Jun 13, 2024
R47893	Selected Recent Actions Involving Foreign Ownership and Investment in U.S. Food and Agriculture: In Brief Archived	Report	Jan 5, 2024

Related bills 5

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 68	FARM Act	Related bill	Jan 25, 2023
S 168	PASS Act of 2023	Related bill	Feb 28, 2023
HR 513	FARM Act	Related bill	Jan 25, 2023
HR 683	PASS Act of 2023	Related bill	Jan 31, 2023
HR 4577	Protecting U.S. Farmland and Sensitive Sites From Foreign Adversaries Act	Related bill	Jul 14, 2023

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of Agriculture as a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: Agricultural Security Risk Review Act
Short Title(s) as Reported to House: Agricultural Security Risk Review Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance.

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Dec 19, 2024Reported in House
May 16, 2023Introduced in House

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