Pesticide Data Transparency Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10629 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2026

   Ms. Mace introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 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)).
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