Bill funds farms, rural homes, and food safety for 2027.
H.R. 8646 — Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2027 · Filed by Andy Harris (R-MD) · Introduced May 1, 2026 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill gives money to the Department of Agriculture. It pays for farm loans, rural housing, food safety checks, farm research, and conservation work. The bill funds these programs to keep them running.
Who it affects
Farmers get access to loans and research. Rural families can get help with housing. Food safety inspectors can do their work.
One thing to notice
The bill uses very technical language with many changes. Some sections let the Secretary make decisions with only 15 days of notice to Congress.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- May 1, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 548”
- Jun 4, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 213 - 210 (Roll no. 205)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
190 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 195 reports from Mar 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $50,756,522 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 6 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 100% of bills with any report.
Andy Harris, who sponsored the bill, received $457,560 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America — $7,360,000 in 1 report
- Altria Client Services LLC — $3,200,000 in 1 report
- American Chemistry Council — $2,570,000 in 1 report
- Amgen Inc — $2,440,000 in 1 report
- Pmi Us Corporate Services Inc. (fka Pmi Global Services Inc.) — $2,350,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Secretary — The head of a government department, like the Secretary of Agriculture.
- conservation — Protecting and managing natural resources like soil, water, and forests.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (50,012 characters) on Jun 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Mar 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 23, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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