HRES-1411 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2162) to provide for the protection of the integrity of honey marketed in the United States, and for other purposes.

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Your MoneyCorporate BenefitsTransparency & Accountability

Sets up a House vote on honey purity rules — imports would be lab-tested, blends labeled by country.

Your Money

Purity standard for honey you buy — final rule within 180 days

Federal health officials would have to write one legal definition of honey. It would cap moisture, heat damage, and added sugars, and is due 180 days after the law takes effect.

Country labels on blended honey — every source above 5 percent listed

A jar mixing honey from several countries would list each one, biggest share first. That list goes on the front label or inside a bordered box you can spot.

Rejected honey barred from other foods — re-export or destroy within 90 days

Imported honey that fails the standard could not be resold as bakery syrup or any other food ingredient. The owner would have 90 days to ship it back out, or it would be destroyed at their cost.

Corporate Benefits

Domestic honey producers' fee exemption — importers pay all program costs

Only honey importers and big packers of foreign honey would pay the fees that fund this program. If a company handles just U.S. honey, it owes nothing.

Domestic honey producers' testing exemption — USDA checks replace lab tests

Honey grown and packed here would count as meeting the standard if USDA checks the producer. Those batches would skip lab tests, unless that producer also handles foreign honey.

Domestic producers' seats on advisory panel — importers barred from membership

A new panel would help write the honey rules, with seats for land-grant university experts and the two biggest U.S. beekeeper groups. No one whose main trade is foreign honey may serve.

Domestic honey failing quality tests — may be resold as animal feed

U.S. honey that is pure but fails on quality, such as heat damage, could be sold for animal feed or baking. Imported honey that fails gets no such option.

Second test for flagged shipments — importer pays for the retest

An importer or packer whose shipment fails a test could ask for one more test. It must be run by a separate approved U.S. lab, at the owner's expense.

Foreign lab paperwork rejected — U.S. labs retest imports

Test results from foreign labs or foreign governments could not prove that a shipment meets the standard, even at the border. Imported honey would have to be sampled and tested at an approved U.S. lab.

Transparency & Accountability

Public list of honey fraud violators — names companies, brands, and suppliers

A public online list would show every proven break of the honey rules. It would name the importers, packers, foreign sellers, and brands involved.

Import records tracking honey volumes — sales cannot exceed verified purchases

Importers, blenders, and packers would have to keep records showing how much real honey they bought. Selling more honey than they can account for would show up in those books.

Separate vote on new bill text — this resolution adopts it automatically

Passing this resolution would swap in the honey act as the new bill text, with no separate vote on that swap. It also blocks floor objections and holds debate to one hour.

More about this bill

If you buy honey, this could change what the label must tell you. The resolution sets the House debate terms for H.R. 2162, the Honey Integrity and Consumer Transparency Act. It also treats a full replacement text of that bill as already adopted. Members would get one hour of debate and one chance to send the bill back to committee. That replacement text would make federal health officials write a binding purity standard for honey within 180 days. The standard would set limits on moisture, heat damage, and added sugars. Imported honey would have to be tested at a U.S. lab. Importers would pay the program's costs. Honey grown and packed in this country would skip that testing. Those producers would owe no program fees. Labels on blended honey would name every country supplying 5 percent or more. A public registry would list companies caught breaking the rules. None of this takes effect unless the bill passes both chambers and is signed into law.

Congressional Summary

This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 2162) to provide for the protection of the integrity of honey marketed in the United States, and for other purposes.

Details

Congress: 119th
Chamber: House
Status: summarized
Action: Introduced in House
Action Date: 2026-06-30
Date Added: 2026-07-10
Source: Congress.gov →

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