3.0.0
2382
2025-12-05T08:59:59Z
2025-12-05T08:59:59Z
Senate
S
S
2023-07-19
118
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2382
- ssaf00
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
Senate
Standing
  - Referred To
2023-07-19T19:29:42Z

- Farmland Security Act of 2023
118
6469
HR
2023-11-21
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
  - Related bill
CRS
- 2023-07-19
  - ssaf00
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
IntroReferral
- 2023-07-19
Introduced in Senate
IntroReferral
10000
9
Library of Congress
- B001230
Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Tammy
Baldwin
D
WI
N
- G000386
Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Chuck
Grassley
R
IA
2023-07-19
True
- F000479
Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]
John
Fetterman
D
PA
K.
2024-07-31
False
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture and Food
2023-08-31T13:45:21Z
00
2023-07-19
Introduced in Senate
2024-07-15T15:38:13Z
Farmland Security Act of 2023
This bill authorizes increased civil penalties for violations of the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (AFIDA) and increases Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversight and research into foreign investment in agricultural land. (AFIDA and the regulations that implemented the act require foreign investors who acquire, transfer, or hold an interest in U.S. agricultural land to report such holdings and transactions to USDA.)
In general, the bill allows USDA to determine an appropriate civil penalty amount for an AFIDA violation by removing the cap that currently prohibits the civil penalty from exceeding 25% of the fair market value of the interest in the land.
The bill provides an exception for a shell corporation (i.e., a corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, society, joint stock company, trust, or estate that has no or nominal operations). An AFIDA civil penalty for a foreign-owned shell corporation must be 100% of the fair market value of the interest in the agricultural land associated with the violation. The penalty does not apply if the shell corporation remedies a defective filing or failure to file within 60 days of USDA providing notice.
USDA must conduct annual compliance audits of at least 10% of the reports. Further, USDA must provide state and county-level personnel annual training in identifying agricultural land for which a report must be submitted.
USDA must also annually conduct research and submit a report to Congress on foreign investment in agricultural land, including trends in the purchase of U.S. agricultural land by foreign-owned shell corporations.
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Farmland Security Act of 2023
- Display Title
45

Farmland Security Act of 2023
2024-08-02T11:03:15Z
- Official Title as Introduced
6

A bill to amend the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 to remove the limitation on the amount of a civil penalty, and for other purposes.
2024-08-01T10:56:53Z
Introduced in Senate
IS
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
101

Farmland Security Act of 2023
2024-05-24T13:37:46Z
Introduced in Senate
IS
- Introduced in Senate
2023-07-19T04:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s2382is/xml/BILLS-118s2382is.xml
2023-07-19
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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