---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1636h"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1636h"
heading: "Federal preemption"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1636h"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Distribution and Marketing of Agricultural Products"
  - "Subchapter II — Livestock Mandatory Reporting"
  - "Part E — Administration"
---

# §1636h. Federal preemption


In order to achieve the goals, purposes, and objectives of this chapter on a nationwide basis and to avoid potentially conflicting [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) laws that could impede the goals, purposes, or objectives of this chapter, no [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) or political subdivision of a [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) may impose a requirement that is in addition to, or inconsistent with, any requirement of this subchapter with respect to the submission or reporting of information, or the publication of such information, on the prices and quantities of livestock or livestock products.


## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1946, ch. 966, title II, § 259, as added Pub. L. 106–78, title IX, § 911(2), Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1205.)