H.R. 5760 · 119th Congress
PASS Act of 2025
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Promoting Agriculture Safeguards and Security Act of 2025 or the PASS Act of 2025
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Oct 14, 2025
Promoting Agriculture Safeguards and Security Act of 2025 or the PASS Act of 2025
This bill establishes requirements to address the national security risk to the agricultural sector of the United States.
Specifically, the bill prohibits a foreign person (i.e., an individual or entity) who is a citizen of or acting on behalf of China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea from purchasing or investing in U.S. agricultural land and companies. The prohibition also applies to an entity that is registered or organized in, or has a principal place of business in, any of these countries. The President may waive this prohibition, on a case-by-case basis, if the President determines that the waiver is vital to U.S. national security interests.
The bill also places the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and requires CFIUS to review certain transactions involving investments by foreign persons in the U.S. agricultural sector.
Additionally, the Department of Agriculture must report on the risks that foreign purchases of U.S. businesses engaged in agriculture pose to the U.S. agricultural sector.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: PASS Act of 2025
Also known as: Promoting Agriculture Safeguards and Security Act of 2025
Latest action (Oct 14, 2025): Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
Policy area: Agriculture and Food · Origin: House · Introduced: Oct 14, 2025
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.