H.R. 7851

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7851 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 7851

To amend the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to 
require the Secretary of Agriculture to publish information related to 
orders under commodity promotion laws.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 5, 2026

Mrs. Spartz introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture

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A BILL

To amend the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to 
require the Secretary of Agriculture to publish information related to 
orders under commodity promotion laws.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Checkoff Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. TRANSPARENCY OF RECORDS OF COMMODITY BOARDS.

Section 501 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act 
of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7401) is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsections (d) through (f) as 
subsections (e) through (g);
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
``(d) Transparency of Records of Commodity Boards.--
``(1) In general.--For each order issued by the Secretary 
under a commodity promotion law, the Secretary shall publish on 
the website of the Department of Agriculture the following 
information:
``(A) The reports of audits submitted by each 
commodity board to the Secretary for each fiscal year 
pursuant to section 515(g)(2).
``(B) The activities and budgets of each commodity 
board approved by the Secretary for each fiscal year.
``(C) The results of each periodic independent 
evaluation described in subsection (c).
``(2) Publication timeline.--In carrying out paragraph (1), 
the Secretary shall--
``(A) not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this subsection, publish the information 
described in such paragraph with respect to the 5 full 
fiscal years preceding such date of enactment; and
``(B) not later than 365 days after the end of any 
subsequent fiscal year, publish the information 
described in such paragraph with respect to such fiscal 
year.''; and
(3) in subsection (f)(4) (as so redesignated), by striking 
``subsection (f)'' and inserting ``subsection (g)''.
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