Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2027

USDA had cut the most it would lend on a direct rural home loan from 80 percent to 60 percent, for loans made on or after February 10, 2026. Section 759 blocks that cut unless USDA first writes a rule and takes public comment.

WIC gives parents a set dollar amount to spend on fruits and vegetables. This bill sets that amount at 267 percent of the 2020 figure for children and 428 percent for women.

Federal rules push school districts to raise the price of paid school lunches. For the 2027-2028 school year, only districts whose meal accounts were in the red on June 30, 2026 would have to follow those rules.

Doctors now advise giving babies peanut foods early to help prevent peanut allergies. Section 753 gives USDA 180 days to add safe peanut foods to the WIC packages for infants.

Section 750 permanently cancels $95 million left over from a 2022 fund that helped farmers who had fallen behind on USDA loans. That money would no longer be available to them.

Federal pay law caps how much extra pay a worker can collect in a pay period or a year. Section 755 lifts that cap for Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service staff working an animal disease or plant health emergency.

Section 764 bars federal agencies from denying grants, contracts, tax-exempt status, benefits, or accreditation to a person because that person speaks or acts on a sincerely held belief that marriage is a union of one man and one woman.

Section 757 bars USDA, the FDA, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Farm Credit Administration from flying any flag except the U.S. flag, a state or territory flag, a tribal flag, an official agency flag, or the POW/MIA flag.

A federal panel already reviews foreign purchases that could affect national security. Section 739 adds the Agriculture Secretary to that panel for farmland deals, and tells USDA to flag suspect purchases, naming China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.

At least $200 million of the FDA's tobacco fees must go to enforcement against illegal vapes. Of that, $20 million funds a task force with the Justice Department and Homeland Security for port inspections, seizures, and court cases.

Section 758 bars USDA from enforcing four Packers and Stockyards rules covering poultry grower contracts and competition in meat markets. USDA must withdraw the rules and close investigations opened under them.

The FDA rule requiring extra records to trace foods like leafy greens could not be enforced before July 20, 2028. The rule was written to speed up tracing during outbreaks.

The FDA could not issue new guidance asking food makers to cut sodium until the 2025-26 national diet survey is published. That survey will start to show whether an earlier round of cuts changed how much salt people eat.

Section 772 stops states from setting pet food label or advertising rules that differ from federal ones. It also treats ingredients on a 2024 industry list as safe food additives unless the FDA finds otherwise.

People and companies that donate pet food or supplies in good faith to shelters or governments could not be sued or charged over the product's condition. The shield does not cover gross carelessness or deliberate harm.

USDA audits how other countries control animal disease before their meat can be sold here. Section 730 requires USDA to promptly publish the final reports of those audits.

Before USDA or the FDA ends a grant, contract, or agreement worth $1 million or more, Section 722 requires three business days of written notice to House and Senate spending committees, with a detailed reason.

A law requiring meat packers to report what they pay for livestock was set to lapse in 2026. Section 767 pushes that date, and a related reporting deadline, to 2027.

Any engineered animal the FDA approved before February 19, 2019 would have to carry the words 'genetically engineered' in front of its market name.

Five accounts set aside money for specific projects listed in the committee report rather than chosen by USDA. Together they total $604 million across rural water, community facilities, conservation, research buildings, and rural broadband.

Section 779 sets the local share of the Arkansas Valley Conduit water project at 35 percent of its cost. Where hardship is shown, that share could be repaid over up to 75 years at half the normal Treasury interest rate.

Section 771 adds $1 million for grants to processors of invasive, wild-caught catfish, run through an existing meat and poultry processing program.

The FDA could not spend money enforcing its produce safety rule, or a pending farm water rule, against growers of wine grapes, hops, pulse crops, or almonds.