Minutes of negotiation meetings with industry must be published within 30 days
Making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2026, and for other purposes, section 6505, Sec. 6505.
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Minutes of negotiation meetings with industry must be published within 30 days
The document says “shall”Who acts: Secretary of Health and Human ServicesHow: statuteSec. 6505 in the PDF
What the document says
“The Secretary shall make publicly available, on the public website of the Food and Drug Administration, robust written minutes of all negotiation meetings conducted under this subsection between the Food and Drug Administration and the regulated industry, not later than 30 days after each such negotiation meeting.”
The minutes have to set out in detail any substantive proposal made by any party, together with significant controversies or differences of opinion and how they were resolved.
What the document actually says
“The Secretary shall make publicly available, on the public website of the Food and Drug Administration, robust written minutes of all negotiation meetings conducted under this subsection between the Food and Drug Administration and the regulated industry, not later than 30 days after each such negotiation meeting.”
That sentence, in plain words
The agency must put notes from its talks with industry on its website. It has thirty days after each talk.
What this is about
The fee deal is worked out in meetings with the firms that pay. This makes the record of those meetings public.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026, Public Law 119-37, sec. 6505, 139 Stat. 642 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ37/html/PLAW-119publ37.htm
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“Minutes of negotiation meetings with industry must be published within 30 days,” Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026, section 6505, Sec. 6505. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/continuing-appropriations-agriculture-legislative/proposal/sec6505-negotiation-minutes-published/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).
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