Bill breaks up big meat companies and forces foreign firms to sell.
H.R. 9744 — Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act · Filed by Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) · 16 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 16, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill stops large meat companies from handling beef, pork, and chicken together. It requires the biggest companies to sell businesses if they control too much market share. Foreign-owned meat companies must sell their U.S. operations. The bill gives the FTC power to stop unfair pricing. It helps small businesses and farmer groups start new meat companies.
Who it affects
Families who buy meat would pay less if competition grows. Independent farmers would get a bigger share of money from meat sales. Small meat companies, farmer cooperatives, and workers in meat plants would benefit.
One thing to notice
The bill sets very tight deadlines for foreign companies to sell U.S. businesses. Foreign companies have 120 days, with a possible 90-day extension.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
16 cosponsors: 16 Democrats.
- Jul 16, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 16, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Agriculture and House Committee on Small Business · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Small…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- FTC — Federal Trade Commission, the government agency that stops unfair business practices
- cooperatives — businesses owned and run together by a group of people or farmers
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 21, 2026; 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.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-17.
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