Sponsor
Sanford Dixon Bishop
Representative · D-GA
Representative · D-GA
The bill clarifies and standardizes statutory terminology to reduce legal and administrative confusion for state agencies and specialty-crop stakeholders, but requires modest one-time updates and administrative costs to implement those editorial changes.
State departments of agriculture, specialty-crop growers, and related stakeholders will have clearer, more consistent statutory terminology and reduced ambiguity about who has authority under the Act, making program administration and compliance easier.
State agencies and small specialty-crop businesses will need to revise implementing documents, guidance, and possibly procedures to reflect the editorial changes, creating minor one-time administrative costs.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Makes editorial changes to the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act: standardizes the term "Secretary" and reorganizes the definitions section.
Official title: To amend the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a pilot program to provide recovery payments to producers of seasonal and perishable crops that experience low prices caused by imports, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 3, 2026 by Sanford Dixon Bishop · Last progress March 3, 2026
Makes targeted, non-substantive edits to the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act by uniformly replacing an existing term with “Secretary,” reorganizing and relabeling the defined-terms paragraph so that definitions read: (1) “Secretary” (Secretary of Agriculture), (2) “Specialty crop,” (3) “State,” and (4) “State department of agriculture.” The changes are editorial and reorganizational and do not add new programs, funding, or duties based on the text provided.