New rules would make foreign investors report small ownership stakes in U.S. farmland.
This bill would require foreign investors to report if they own at least 1 percent of U.S. agricultural land, even through complex business structures. It would also make government agencies share this ownership information with a committee that reviews foreign investments and improve how they track and validate the data.
Today, foreign persons owning agricultural land must report it, but the rules are less clear for small stakes in complex ownership structures. If this bill passes, foreign persons would have to report if they hold at least a 1 percent interest, directly or through other companies. Government agencies would also be required to share this data more widely with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and update their guidance regularly, with the first update due within one year.
S 1969 · 119th Congress · June 5, 2025 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 5/10
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