---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2225a"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2225a"
heading: "Contracts for consulting services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2225a"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2225a. Contracts for consulting services


On and after October 28, 1991, the expenditure of any appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to [5 U.S.C. 3109](/usc/5/3109.md), shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–142, title VII, § 701, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 911.)