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+title: "15 U.S.C. § 8717"
+description: "Study and report by the Department of Commerce"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 15
+title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
+chapter_number: "113"
+chapter_name: "CONCRETE MASONRY PRODUCTS RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND PROMOTION"
+section: "8717"
+citation: "15 U.S.C. § 8717"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc15@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s8717"
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+---
+
+# 15 U.S.C. § 8717 - Study and report by the Department of Commerce
+
+## Text
+
+Not later than 3 years after October 5, 2018, the Secretary shall prepare a study and submit to Congress a report examining the appropriateness and effectiveness of applying the commodity check-off program model (such as those programs established under the Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7411 et seq.)) to a nonagricultural industry, taking into account the program established by this chapter and any other check-off program involving a nonagricultural industry.
+
+(Pub. L. 115–254, div. E, § 1318, Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3485.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+References in TextThe Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1996, referred to in text, is subtitle B of title V of Pub. L. 104–127, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1032, which is classified generally to subchapter II (§ 7411 et seq.) of chapter 101 of Title 7, Agriculture. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7401 of Title 7 and Tables.