HR 7851 Re-checks Congress.gov for new actions and updates the bill's status, and fills in any sponsors, committees, or related bills that are missing. It does not re-pull sponsors/cosponsors/committees/related — those rarely change — and it skips all work if nothing has changed upstream, so it's cheap to click.
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.
Summary
The Checkoff Transparency Act requires the Secretary of Agriculture to publicly disclose financial and operational information about commodity promotion boards. For each commodity board order, the Secretary must publish on the USDA website the boards' audit reports, approved budgets and activities, and results of independent evaluations, with all information updated annually. Within 180 days of the law's enactment, the Secretary must release records from the previous five years, and thereafter must publish new information within one year after each fiscal year ends. The bill modifies the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to mandate these public disclosure requirements.
AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.
Sponsor (1)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Victoria Spartz’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $78,636
- INDIANA SPINE GROUP $22,800
- CDR HEALTH CARE, INC $6,600
- DILLON GAGE $6,600
- OGRE HOLDINGS $6,600
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Victoria Spartz → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Mar 5, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
- Mar 5, 2026 Introduced in House
Similar bills (6)
Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.
Full text
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>
Comments