An original bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national voluntary labeling standard for bioengineered foods, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2609.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2609, a bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national voluntary labeling standard for bioengineered foods, and for other purposes” on March 18, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, on March 1, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 18, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51398

  CBO publication date

  March 18, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2609, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/2609

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 114-403 ↗.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/SRPT/403

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2609, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/2609

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f450c96c63be4d630408b06ab9d223a50248163a88bd050d28eb7a121fc15731

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