HR 1713
Passed a chamber
Adds the Secretary of Agriculture to the federal committee that reviews foreign investments in U.S. businesses and land, and requires that committee to consider certain farmland purchases by buyers from four designated countries.
Official title: Agricultural Risk Review Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
27-FEB-2025
Referred
27-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
05-MAR-2025
Reported
03-JUN-2025
On the calendar
03-JUN-2025
Passed
23-JUN-2025
Senate
Received
24-JUN-2025
- Makes the Secretary of Agriculture a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for deals involving agricultural land, agricultural biotechnology, or the agriculture industry.
- Requires the committee to decide whether a reported farmland purchase by a person from China, North Korea, Russia, or Iran is a covered transaction and whether to open a review.
- Ends these farmland requirements for a given country once that country is removed from the foreign adversaries list in federal regulations.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (27-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 23-JUN-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Foreign Affairs Committee (House)
- Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
- Financial Services Committee (House)
- Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee (Senate)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
■ 10 R■ 10 D
10 Republicans
10 Democrats