Meat Packing Special Investigator Act
Official title: A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to establish the Office of the Special Investigator for Competition Matters, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Meat Packing Special Investigator Act
This bill establishes within the Department of Agriculture's Packers and Stockyards Division the Office of the Special Investigator for Competition Matters.
Specifically, the office must use all available tools (e.g., subpoenas) to investigate and prosecute violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 by packers. Further, the bill grants the office the authority to bring any civil or administrative action authorized by that act against a packer.
Additionally, the office must
- serve as a liaison to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission with respect to competition and trade practices in the food and agricultural sector,
- consult with the Department of Homeland Security on national security and critical infrastructure security in the food and agricultural sector, and
- maintain a staff of attorneys and other professionals with appropriate expertise.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2036: Meat Packing Special Investigator Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2036/
"S. 2036: Meat Packing Special Investigator Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2036/.
S. 2036, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2036/.
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