Pesticide Data Transparency Act
Allows public release of pesticide data that could identify individual producers and limits EPA actions that delay disclosure.
In the House Agriculture Committee since Sept. 28, 2026, 7 days after it was introduced. Most bills never leave committee.
- INTRODUCEDINTROSEP 28, 2026
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What the bill would do, and why it matters
Pesticide data rules balance public access to records with the privacy of individual producers. The bill would remove a restriction on releasing data that could identify producers, require the EPA to report on records newly eligible for disclosure, and bar certain agency rules or guidance from preventing or significantly delaying disclosure.
- INTRODUCED ONLY This bill has been introduced and possibly referred to a committee, but it has not passed any vote. Most introduced bills never become law — they die in committee without a hearing.
- DATA NOTE No Congressional Research Service summary was available.
- Allow publication of producer-linked data
The bill would remove the restriction that prevents government agencies from releasing pesticide data, including its location, if it could directly or indirectly reveal an individual producer’s identity.
- Require a report on newly publishable records
The EPA Administrator would report to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on records that were barred from disclosure before the change but would no longer be barred. The report would include recommendations for compiling and publicly disclosing those records in a timely manner.
- Bar rules that delay public disclosure
The EPA Administrator could not issue, implement, or enforce a regulation, guidance document, or interpretive rule that could prevent or significantly delay public disclosure of the specified pesticide records and data.
The bill addresses the boundary between public access to pesticide data and the existing protection against releasing information that could identify individual producers. Removing that protection could make more records available, while also reducing the restriction that currently shields producer identities.
Written from the bill text.
The path it took, step by step
- IntroducedSEP 28, 2026HOUSESEP 28, 2026By Rep. MaceReferred to Agriculture
- SAME DAYNOWHouse committeeSEP 28, 2026AGRICULTURE NOWSEP 28, 2026In committee for 7 daysNo hearing yet
- 7 DAYS SO FARPassed the House—HOUSE FLOOR—Not scheduled
- Senate committee—SENATE—
- Passed the Senate—SENATE FLOOR—Not scheduled
- Resolve differencesONLY IF NEEDEDBOTH CHAMBERSONLY IF NEEDEDSkipped if the other chamber passes the same text
- Signed into law—PRESIDENT—10 days to sign or veto
- SEP 282026SEP 28, 2026REFERREDHOUSEReferred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
- SEP 282026SEP 28, 2026INTRODUCEDHOUSEIntroduced in House
At day 7, this bill is already older than 3% of the laws passed this Congress were when they were signed.
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