Title: TIPPI Act of 2022
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Transparency in Invasive Pests on Pallets Improvement Act of 2022 or the TIPPI Act of 2022
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to publicize on its website information on violations of wood packaging material (e.g., solid wood pallets, crates, spools and other packaging, and solid wood dunnage) regulations with respect to cargo entering the United States.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5278 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5278

    To amend the Plant Protection Act to require the publication of 
 information on violations of wood packaging material regulations, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 15, 2022

Mrs. Gillibrand introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Plant Protection Act to require the publication of 
 information on violations of wood packaging material regulations, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transparency in Invasive Pests on 
Pallets Improvement Act of 2022'' or the ``TIPPI Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION ON VIOLATIONS OF WOOD PACKAGING 
              MATERIAL REGULATIONS.

    Subtitle C of the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7751 et seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 439. PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION ON VIOLATIONS OF WOOD PACKAGING 
              MATERIAL REGULATIONS.

    ``(a) In General.--Beginning on January 1, 2024, the Secretary 
shall make publicly available on the website of the Department of 
Agriculture information on each violation of the regulations on wood 
packaging material (including solid wood pallets, crates, spools and 
other packaging, and solid wood dunnage) under subpart I of part 319 of 
title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), with 
respect to cargo entering the United States.
    ``(b) Contents.--The information made publicly available under 
subsection (a) shall include, for each violation--
            ``(1) the date of the violation;
            ``(2) the type of violation;
            ``(3) the type of insect found if the violation is an 
        insect infestation;
            ``(4) the type of wood packaging material;
            ``(5) information from the International Sanitary and 
        Phytosanitary Measures No. 15 mark on the wood packaging 
        material (including country, facility number, and treatment 
        type);
            ``(6) the port of entry of the wood packaging material 
        containing the commodity being shipped;
            ``(7) the country of origin of shipment of the wood 
        packaging material containing the commodity being shipped; and
            ``(8) the commodity shipped in the wood packaging material.
    ``(c) Effect.--Nothing in this section establishes a cause of 
action against the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service relating 
to the publication of information pursuant to this section.''.
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