Promoting Access to Local Agriculture Act of 2026
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Promoting Access to Local Agriculture Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses. The main policy domain is Agriculture, Environment, Social Welfare.
Who Benefits and How
farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses 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, farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H49AC5420B3E146879853EEC213771CD6: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Access to Local Agriculture Act of 2026.
- Section H8E696804D0614B53BCA64832C733179D: 2. Streamlining applications for farmers In this section: The term covered nutrition program means— the supplemental nutrition assistance program established...
- Section HF7018DF948BA43CEB15BCDE1C5EA3DA2: 3. Support for wireless and mobile equipment for certain entities Section 7(f)(2) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2016(f)(2)) is amended— by...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Promoting Access to Local Agriculture Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses.
Key Policy Areas
Agriculture, Environment, Social Welfare
Primary Purpose
This bill, Promoting Access to Local Agriculture Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, …
Introduced in Senate
Ms. Smith introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
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?
- "secretary_of_agriculture"
- → Secretary of Agriculture
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
the Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary shall establish a streamlined application process— for direct marketing farmers and ranchers to apply to be vendors under each of the covered nutrition programs
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