---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1912"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1912"
heading: "Submission of legislative proposals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1912"
units:
  - "Chapter 49 — Consultation on Agricultural Programs"
---

# §1912. Submission of legislative proposals


If the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture, after such consultation and receipt of such advice as provided in [section 1911 of this title](/usc/7/1911.md), determines that additional legislative authority is necessary to develop agricultural programs involving supply adjustments or marketing regulations through the use of marketing orders, marketing quotas or price-support programs, he shall formulate specific recommendations in the form of proposed legislation which shall be submitted to the Congress together with a statement setting forth the purpose and need for such proposed legislation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–128, title I, § 103, Aug. 8, 1961, 75 Stat. 295.)