Bill gives low-income families $60 monthly to buy fresh produce.
H.R. 9581 — Fresh Bucks for Fresh Produce Act · Filed by Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) · 11 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 2, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill creates a five-year test program. The Department of Agriculture gives money to states. States give $60 each month to eligible families. Families buy fresh produce at farmers markets, independent grocers, supermarkets, and farm stands. The program studies whether payments help food security and vegetable eating.
Who it affects
Low-income households get money to buy fresh food. The program adds to existing benefits, not replacing them. Farmers markets, independent grocers, supermarkets, and farm stands may sell more produce.
One thing to notice
The bill requires a study to see if payments help. The program lasts five years, then Congress must decide to continue it.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
11 cosponsors: 11 Democrats.
- Jul 2, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 2, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Agriculture · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $480,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 24 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Pramila Jayapal, who sponsored the bill, received $281,250 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. — $480,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Department of Agriculture — The government agency that handles farming, food, and nutrition programs.
- eligible — Qualified to receive something based on set rules.
- food security — Having enough money to buy enough food to eat.
- 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 (7,671 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 Jun 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 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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