S903-119

In Committee

PASS Act

119th Congress Introduced Mar 6, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, PASS Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients. The main policy domain is Foreign Policy, Defense, Finance.

Who Benefits and How

foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Agriculture Safeguards and Security Act or the PASS Act.
  • Section id99c8ef30426b4bf1b5bf1fb370ca9d17: 2. Review and prohibitions by Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States of certain transactions relating to agriculture Section 721 of the Defense...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, PASS Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients.

Key Policy Areas

Foreign Policy, Defense, Finance

Primary Purpose

This bill, PASS Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients.

Policy Domains

Foreign Policy Defense Finance

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients
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foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients
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federal implementing agencies:
foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Mar 6, 2025

Mr. Rounds (for himself, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Lummis, Mr. …

Mar 6, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, …

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Foreign Policy Defense Finance
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_agriculture"
→ Secretary of Agriculture

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"reportable agricultural land transaction" §id99c8ef30426b4bf1b5bf1fb370ca9d17

a transaction—(I)that the Secretary of Agriculture has reason to believe is a covered transaction

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