3.0.0 845 2025-12-05T22:01:40Z 2025-12-05T22:01:40Z Senate S S 2025-03-04 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/845 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-03-04T22:25:39Z 119 1629 HR 2025-02-26 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. Related bill CRS 2025-03-04 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2025-03-04 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 2025-03-04 True Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2025-05-12T14:08:22Z

00 2025-03-04 Introduced in Senate 2025-05-13T15:26:40Z <p><strong>Farmland Security Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill&nbsp;authorizes increased civil penalties for violations of the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (AFIDA)&nbsp;and increases Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversight of and research into foreign investment in agricultural land.&nbsp;As background, 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.</p><p>In general, the bill allows USDA to determine an appropriate civil penalty amount for an&nbsp;AFIDA violation by removing the cap that currently&nbsp;prohibits the civil penalty from exceeding 25% of the fair market value of the interest in the agricultural land&nbsp;associated with the violation.</p><p>Under an exception in the bill, the civil penalty for a foreign-owned shell corporation is 100% of the fair market value of the interest in the agricultural land. The bill defines&nbsp;a shell corporation to include a company, association, firm, partnership, society, joint stock company, trust, or estate that has no or nominal operations. The penalty does not apply if the shell corporation remedies a defective filing or failure to file within 60 days of USDA providing notice.</p><p>USDA must conduct annual compliance audits of at least 10% of the reports. Further, USDA must provide&nbsp;state and county-level personnel certain annual training.</p><p>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.</p>

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