S2541-119

In Committee

Food Date Labeling Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Jul 30, 2025

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Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Food Date Labeling Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Agriculture, Technology.

Who Benefits and How

health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section H42BFDBF4B1934DEF9F0E5FFE24778617: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Food Date Labeling Act of 2025.
  • Section H22D1E6C24AFF42438234666351CB9F47: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term administering Secretaries means— the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to any product that is— under the jurisdiction...
  • Section H61B010B85459417BA6A4E003CF96E66D: 3. Quality date phrases and discard date phrases If a quality date is used on a food package, such quality date shall be proceeded by the uniform quality date...
  • Section HF925FA82D28B43E5A63FCA4E419B5302: 4. Misbranding Section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 343) is amended by adding at the end the following: If the label bears a...
  • Section id2d061b7ec450485898868b11ef8d4a9e: 5. Regulations Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the administering Secretaries, in coordination with each other, shall promulgate...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Food Date Labeling Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.

Key Policy Areas

Healthcare, Agriculture, Technology

Primary Purpose

This bill, Food Date Labeling Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.

Policy Domains

Healthcare Agriculture Technology

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • health care providers and patients
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Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • health care providers and patients
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Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Jul 30, 2025

Mr. Blumenthal (for himself and Mr. Scott of Florida) introduced …

Jul 30, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …

Jul 30, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Healthcare Agriculture Technology
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section
"secretary_of_agriculture"
→ Secretary of Agriculture
"secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
→ Secretary of Health and Human Services

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"quality date phrase" §H22D1E6C24AFF42438234666351CB9F47

a phrase voluntarily printed on a food packaging that is intended to communicate to consumers when— the quality of the product may begin to deteriorate

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