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The bill improves identification, monitoring, and research on household food insecurity to better target nutrition programs, but it creates privacy and respondent-burden risks and authorizes unspecified taxpayer costs.
Low-income households, parents, and families will be more accurately identified for food-assistance needs because the CPS will collect standardized annual food-security data (2026–2028), improving monitoring and program targeting.
State governments, schools, and researchers will get more timely, comparable data because USDA and the Census will coordinate reporting and publicly post findings, helping evaluate and design nutrition programs.
Scientists and agricultural researchers will see strengthened federal research capacity because the bill authorizes coordination and funding for Census–USDA food-security work.
Low-income households and children could face privacy risks if detailed food-security findings are published without strong safeguards, raising the chance of sensitive information disclosure.
Respondents (especially low-income individuals and families) will face increased survey burden from expanded CPS questions about sensitive household experiences, which could reduce response rates and degrade data quality.
Taxpayers may incur additional costs because the bill authorizes unspecified “such sums as necessary” to fund the annual surveys and reporting.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires USDA and Census to run a coordinated annual food insecurity measurement program and a CPS food security supplement for 2026–2028, with reporting and authorized funding.
Official title: Require the Secretary of Agriculture, in coordination with the Director of the Bureau of the Census, to establish an interagency food security measurement program, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 24, 2026 by Lisa Blunt Rochester · Last progress June 24, 2026
Establishes an interagency program led by USDA and the Census Bureau to coordinate annual collection, analysis, and public reporting of data on food insecurity and hunger. Requires a Current Population Survey (CPS) food security supplement using the 2023 CPS questionnaire for calendar years 2026–2028, with the option to continue substantially similar questions from January 1, 2029 after testing, public input, and OMB approval, and authorizes appropriations as needed.