S.Amdt. 453

SA 453. Ms. BALDWIN (for herself, Mr. Grassley, and Mr. Tester)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S.
2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1083. REPORT AND PLAN ON FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF LAND NEAR
INSTALLATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN
THE UNITED STATES.

Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of
Representatives--
(1) a report that--
(A) contains a thorough review of ownership by foreign
persons of agricultural land near installations of the
Department of Defense in the United States; and
(B) assesses the threat such ownership poses to the
national security of the United States; and
(2) in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture and
the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
under section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50
U.S.C. 4565), a plan for addressing foreign ownership of
land, including farmland, and the risk to the national
security of the United States that ownership presents near
installations of the Department of Defense.

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