HR7851119th CongressWALLET

Checkoff Transparency Act

Sponsored By: Representative Spartz

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Summary

Public disclosure of commodity checkoff audits, budgets, and evaluations. The Checkoff Transparency Act would require the Department of Agriculture to publish, for each commodity promotion order, audit reports submitted by commodity boards, the activities and budgets approved by the Secretary, and the results of periodic independent evaluations.

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  • Commodity boards: Their annual audit reports, approved activities and budgets, and evaluation results would be posted on USDA’s website for each order.
  • Producers and the public: Would gain access to governance and financial information for checkoff programs, including a five-year lookback of past fiscal years.
  • Publication timeline: USDA would have to post the prior 5 full fiscal years within 180 days of enactment and then publish each subsequent fiscal year within 365 days after it ends.
  • Technical change: The bill also redesignates subsections in the underlying law to update statutory cross-references and align the new publication duty.

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More transparency for commodity boards

This bill would require the Secretary of Agriculture to post, on the Department of Agriculture website, information for every order under a commodity promotion law. The posted materials would include audit reports boards submit, each board’s approved activities and budgets for each fiscal year, and results of independent evaluations. The Secretary would have to post the prior five full fiscal years of data not later than 180 days after enactment. After that, the Department would post each fiscal year’s materials not later than 365 days after that fiscal year ends.

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Spartz

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