Frank Lucas (R-OK)
Agricultural Risk Review Act of 2025
A Republican bill with 10 Democratic cosponsors · See all 20 cosponsors
Last activity — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
In the other chamber's committee
Passed one chamber and has been handed to a committee in the other.
The committee decides whether it goes any further, and most bills that reach a committee never leave it. A committee that simply does nothing kills a bill without anyone ever voting against it, so no news from here is usually the news.
Its path through Congress
- Introduced
- Passed House voice vote
- In Senate committee
The House by voice vote (members called out yes or no together): no member's position on it was recorded.
What this bill would do
This Act, known as the ``Agricultural Risk Review Act of 2025'', proposes amendments to the Defense Production Act of 1950. It seeks to include the Secretary of Agriculture as a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. This membership applies to transactions involving agricultural land, agriculture biotechnology, or the agriculture industry, such as transportation, storage, and processing. Additionally, the bill establishes a process for the Committee to consider certain agricultural land transactions. These specific transactions involve acquisitions by foreign persons from the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, or the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Yes· 3 of 4
- Scored +5
Would farmers be better off under this?
The bill provides increased oversight to protect the agricultural industry from foreign interests.
- Scored +4
Does this give the federal government more power?
The bill expands the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture within the CFIUS committee process.
- Scored +3
Would people in rural areas be better off under this?
The bill helps safeguard agricultural land which is vital to rural economies.
The opposite
No question was scored the opposite.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
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Increased Oversight of Agricultural Assets: By adding the Secretary of Agriculture to the Committee, the bill ensures specific oversight regarding transactions involving agricultural land, biotechnology, and the broader agriculture industry, including storage and processing (Section 2).
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Targeted Review of Land Transactions: The bill creates a mechanism for the Committee to determine if a reportable agricultural land transaction requires a review or other action (Section 3, Subparagraph (i)).
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Monitoring of Specific Foreign Interests: The bill allows for the consideration of transactions where the Secretary of Agriculture has reason to believe a foreign person from the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, or the Islamic Republic of Iran is acquiring an interest in agricultural land (Section 3, Subparagraph (ii)).
Potential Negative Impacts for People
- No negative impacts or burdens are explicitly stated within the provided text.
Groups and Interests Ranking
Every group the model scored this bill for, from -10 to +10. Tap or hover a score for the reason it gave.
- Demographic And Interest Groups
- Would farmers be better off under this? — The bill provides increased oversight to protect the agricultural industry from foreign interests. Would people in rural areas be better off under this? — The bill helps safeguard agricultural land which is vital to rural economies.
- Governance And Ideology
- Does this give the federal government more power? — The bill expands the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture within the CFIUS committee process.
- Environment Energy And Infrastructure
- Does this better protect public land such as parks and forests? — The bill enhances oversight of agricultural land to protect national interests.
- 6/24/2025
- Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
- 6/23/2025
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2865)
- On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2865)
- DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1713.
- Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2865-2866)
- Mrs. Wagner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 6/3/2025
- Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 119-129, Part I.
- Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
- Committee on Foreign Affairs discharged.
- Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 99.
- 5/23/2025
- 2 Cosponsors added.
- 5/19/2025
- 2 Cosponsors added.
- 4/28/2025
- 2 Cosponsors added.
- 4/24/2025
- 2 Cosponsors added.
- 3/24/2025
- 4 Cosponsors added.
- 3/11/2025
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- 3/10/2025
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- 3/5/2025
- Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 48 - 0.
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- 3/4/2025
- 5 Cosponsors added.
- 2/27/2025
- Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Introduced in House
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