# 119-hr-9744: Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act

119-hr-9744, Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7] (D-WA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-26).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-9744
- Congress: 119
- Title: Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-07-16
- Sponsor: Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7] (D-WA)
- Cosponsors: 16
- Policy area: Agriculture and Food
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-08-26

## Summary

**Restore competition in U.S. meatpacking.** This bill would force breakups and divestitures of dominant meatpackers and block anticompetitive mergers to protect ranchers, small processors, workers, and consumers. - Families: Aims to lower consumer meat prices by reducing extreme concentration that now gives the four largest firms about 85% of the beef market and 67% of pork. - Independent producers and processors: Gives the Federal Trade Commission power to require divestitures to independent buyers and to favor farmer cooperatives and worker-owned firms. It bars covered packers from operating multiple protein lines and caps a firm's slaughter of a feedlot's cattle at 10% per year. - Workers and rural communities: Promotes safer, fairer jobs and helps grow independent and regional processors to support rural economies. The Small Business Administration can provide loans, guarantees, and technical help to cooperatives and small processors to buy or expand divested plants.

## Cosponsors (16)

- Rep. Deluzio, Christopher R. [D-PA-17] (D-PA), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Ryan, Patrick [D-NY-18] (D-NY), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. García, Jesús G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4] (D-IL), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Balint, Becca [D-VT-At Large] (D-VT), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank" [D-GA-4] (D-GA), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Randall, Emily [D-WA-6] (D-WA), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-PA-12] (D-PA), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Foushee, Valerie P. [D-NC-4] (D-NC), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12] (D-NJ), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13] (D-MI), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-AZ-3] (D-AZ), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Frost, Maxwell [D-FL-10] (D-FL), 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6] (D-NY), 2026-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lee, Susie [D-NV-3] (D-NV), 2026-08-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Grijalva, Adelita S. [D-AZ-7] (D-AZ), 2026-08-24T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- SBA help for co-ops and plants: benefit, medium. If enacted, the Small Business Administration would be able to provide loans, loan guarantees, technical help, and other assistance to farmers' cooperatives and small businesses to buy or run meatpacking plants divested under the Act. The SBA could give preference to local or regional buyers that i…
- Feedlot protections and packer penalties: mixed, high. If enacted, a beef packer could not slaughter more than 10% of any single feedlot's cattle in one year. Feedlots that sold less than 10% to a packer could sue for triple damages based on the per-head price gap times cattle sold, plus costs and attorney fees. The FTC would treat failure to divest as…
- Limits on big and foreign meatpackers: mixed, high. If enacted, the FTC would bar covered meatpackers from owning businesses that sell more than one type of meat in the U.S. The FTC would order divestitures when beef markets meet one of three tests: HHI over 1800, CR4 over 50%, or one firm with 30% or more market share. For foreign-controlled packer…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025
- 119-hr-2086: Rights for the TSA Workforce Act
- 119-hr-5390: FAMILY Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-9744 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/9744)

## Related
- [119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9877)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-20)
- [119-hr-2086: Rights for the TSA Workforce Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2086)
- [119-hr-5390: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5390)
- [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation)

Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9744 (as of 2026-08-26).