119th Congress · introduced in the House · Feb 26, 2025
Farmland Security Act of 2025
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Latest action (Feb 26, 2025): Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
View on Congress.govPolicy area: Agriculture and Food
Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in House (Feb 26, 2025)
Farmland Security Act of 2025
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 of and research into foreign investment in agricultural land. 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.
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 agricultural land associated with the violation.
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 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.
USDA must conduct annual compliance audits of at least 10% of the reports. Further, USDA must provide state and county-level personnel certain annual training.
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.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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7 citations.
AFIDA MODERNIZATION COMMITTEE (INFORMAL COALITION) · lobbying firm or registrant: KELLEY DRYE & WARREN LLP
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Agriculture
$20,000
Paid to lobbying firm
…visions relating to reporting requirements under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 and electronic filing and public disclosure. S.845/ H.R. 1629, Farmland Security Act of 2025, whole bill. S. 4192, PLOT Act, provisions relating to reporting requirements under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosu…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AFIDA MODERNIZATION COMMITTEE (INFORMAL COALITION) · lobbying firm or registrant: KELLEY DRYE & WARREN LLP
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 20, 2026 · issue area: Agriculture
$20,000
Paid to lobbying firm
…visions relating to reporting requirements under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 and electronic filing and public disclosure. S.845/ H.R. 1629, Farmland Security Act of 2025, whole bill. S. 4192, PLOT Act, provisions relating to reporting requirements under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosu…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AFIDA MODERNIZATION COMMITTEE (INFORMAL COALITION) · lobbying firm or registrant: KELLEY DRYE & WARREN LLP
2026 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026) · posted Apr 20, 2026 · issue area: Agriculture
$20,000
Paid to lobbying firm
…visions relating to reporting requirements under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 and electronic filing and public disclosure. S.845/ H.R. 1629, Farmland Security Act of 2025, whole bill. S. 4192, PLOT Act, provisions relating to reporting requirements under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosu…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AFIDA MODERNIZATION COMMITTEE (INFORMAL COALITION) · lobbying firm or registrant: KELLEY DRYE & WARREN LLP
2025 Q4 report (Oct 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025) · posted Jan 20, 2026 · issue area: Agriculture
$20,000
Paid to lobbying firm
…visions relating to reporting requirements under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 and electronic filing and public disclosure. S.845/ H.R. 1629, Farmland Security Act of 2025, whole bill. Federal policy regarding protection of AFIDA filers personal and business confidential information.
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AFIDA MODERNIZATION COMMITTEE (INFORMAL COALITION) · lobbying firm or registrant: KELLEY DRYE & WARREN LLP
2025 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2025 – Sep 30, 2025) · posted Oct 20, 2025 · issue area: Agriculture
$20,000
Paid to lobbying firm
…visions relating to reporting requirements under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 and electronic filing and public disclosure. S.845/ H.R. 1629, Farmland Security Act of 2025, whole bill. Federal policy regarding protection of AFIDA filers personal and business confidential information.
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AFIDA MODERNIZATION COMMITTEE (INFORMAL COALITION) · lobbying firm or registrant: KELLEY DRYE & WARREN LLP
2025 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2025) · posted Jul 21, 2025 · issue area: Agriculture
$20,000
Paid to lobbying firm
…visions relating to reporting requirements under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 and electronic filing and public disclosure. S.845/ H.R. 1629, Farmland Security Act of 2025, whole bill.
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AFIDA MODERNIZATION COMMITTEE (INFORMAL COALITION) · lobbying firm or registrant: KELLEY DRYE & WARREN LLP
2025 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025) · posted Apr 21, 2025 · issue area: Agriculture
$20,000
Paid to lobbying firm
…visions relating to reporting requirements under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 and electronic filing and public disclosure. S.845/ H.R. 1629, Farmland Security Act of 2025, whole bill.
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing