[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2606-S2607]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 453. Ms. BALDWIN (for herself, Mr. Grassley, and Mr. Tester) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 
2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1083. REPORT AND PLAN ON FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF LAND NEAR 
                   INSTALLATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN 
                   THE UNITED STATES.

       Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
     Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives--
       (1) a report that--
       (A) contains a thorough review of ownership by foreign 
     persons of agricultural land near installations of the 
     Department of Defense in the United States; and
       (B) assesses the threat such ownership poses to the 
     national security of the United States; and
       (2) in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture and 
     the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States 
     under section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 
     U.S.C. 4565), a plan for addressing foreign ownership of 
     land, including farmland, and the risk to the national 
     security of the United States that ownership presents near 
     installations of the Department of Defense.

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