Rural Grants Transparency Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Jun 15, 2026
What it does
The Rural Grants Transparency Act would require the Secretary of Agriculture to improve transparency and accessibility of rural development grant programs by creating a publicly available, quarterly-updated Rural Grant Transparency Roadmap for each covered program, providing standardized application notifications to applicants, maintaining a searchable database of grant awards, publishing scoring criteria for competitive programs, and ensuring annual training for state and local USDA offices. The bill affects rural communities, small towns, nonprofits, cooperatives, and persistent-poverty counties seeking federal grants through USDA Rural Development programs administered by the Rural…
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Where it goes next
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