HR10629Referred to Committee

Pesticide Data Transparency Act

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Passed One Chamber
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Passed Both
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Signed into Law
119th
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2026-09-28
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Nancy Mace
Nancy Mace
Republican · SC · Representative
Votes with party: 93.3% (551 recorded votes)

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Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

2026-09-28

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Environmental Protection

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 10629 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 10629 To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to allow the publication of certain pesticide data, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 28, 2026 Ms. Mace introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to allow the publication of certain pesticide data, and for other purposes. 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 ``Pesticide Data Transparency Act''. SEC. 2. PUBLICATION OF CERTAIN PESTICIDE DATA. Section 1491(b) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 136i-1(b)) is amended by striking the following: ``, but in no case may a government agency release data, including the location from which the data was derived, that would directly or indirectly reveal the identity of individual producers''. SEC. 3. REPORT TO CONGRESS REGARDING PESTICIDE DATA PREVIOUSLY BARRED FROM PUBLICATION. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate a report describing records and data barred from public disclosure under section 1491 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 136i-1), as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act, but no longer barred from public disclosure as a result of the amendment made by section 2 of this Act, along with recommendations as to how the Agency may successfully compile and publicly disclose such records and data in a timely manner. SEC. 4. LIMITATION ON RULEMAKING. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not issue, implement, or enforce any regulation, guidance document, or interpretive rule that may prevent or significantly delay the public disclosure of the records and data described in section 1491(b) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 136i- 1(b)). <all>

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