3.0.0 3161 2023-01-11T13:33:15Z 2023-01-11T13:33:15Z Senate S 2016-07-12 114 ssbk00 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2016-07-12T16:14:38Z 2016-07-12 ssbk00 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. IntroReferral 2016-07-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Charles Grassley R IA E. N Foreign Trade and International Finance Agricultural trade Corporate finance and management Department of Agriculture Executive agency funding and structure Foreign and international corporations U.S. and foreign investments Foreign Trade and International Finance 00 2016-07-12 Introduced in Senate 2016-07-20T19:01:23Z Securing American Food Equity Act of 2016 or the SAFE Act of 2016

This bill amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and to require CFIUS to consider the national security-related effects on agricultural assets in reviewing transactions.

(CFIUS is an interagency committee authorized under current law to review transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person in order to determine the effects of the transactions on national security.)

]]> SAFE Act of 2016 Display Title SAFE Act of 2016 Short Titles as Introduced SAFE Act of 2016 Short Titles as Introduced Securing American Food Equity Act of 2016 Official Title as Introduced A bill to include the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and to provide for the consideration by that Committee of the national security effects of foreign investment on agricultural assets. Introduced in Senate 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s3161is/xml/BILLS-114s3161is.xml 2016-07-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.