Checkoff Transparency Act

Victoria Spartz

Republican · IN · Representative

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Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

2026-03-05

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This bill would require agricultural checkoff programs—industry-funded marketing and research initiatives for products like beef, dairy, and cotton—to disclose their spending and activities to the public. Farmers and ranchers who contribute to these programs would gain more visibility into how their money is being used and could better understand what their industry groups are funding. The measure aims to increase accountability for these self-regulated industry organizations that collect millions of dollars annually from producers.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7851 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 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. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 5, 2026 Mrs. Spartz introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture _______________________________________________________________________ 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)''. <all>

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