USDA gets money to run a swine disease prevention program.
S. 4893 — U.S. Swine Health Improvement Plan Act of 2026 · Filed by Jon Husted (R-OH) · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill tells the USDA to start a voluntary program. It is called the U.S. Swine Health Improvement Plan. The program helps pig farms stop diseases and get ready for outbreaks. The USDA will set up a group of experts. These experts come from farms and government. The USDA must finish the rules within one year. The bill gives the USDA $4.5 million each year. This money lasts through 2031.
Who it affects
Pig farms can join the program if they want to. The program helps reduce the chance of pig diseases. This protects the food supply.
One thing to notice
Farms do not have to join the program. The government pays for it with tax money, not fees from farms.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry”
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 $230,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 25 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Jon Husted, who sponsored the bill, received $2,634,596 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Syensqo USA LLC — $230,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- voluntary — farms can choose to join or not join the program
- program — a system that helps pig farms stop diseases and prepare for outbreaks
- experts — people who know a lot about farms and government and give advice
- 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 (1,490 characters) on Jul 9, 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 13, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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