1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Taxpayer Fairness for Resource Development Act of 2019 . 2. Table of contents The table of contents for this Act is the following: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. Sec. 3. Onshore fossil fuel royalty rates. Sec. 4. Minimum bid amount. Sec. 5. Onshore oil and gas rental rates. Sec. 6. Penalties. Sec. 7. Royalty relief. Sec. 8. Revision of Royalty Policy Committee charter. Sec. 9. Royalty in kind. Sec. 10. Amendments to definitions. Sec. 11. Compliance reviews. Sec. 12. Liability for royalty payments. Sec. 13. Recordkeeping. Sec. 14. Adjustments and refunds. Sec. 15. Obligation period. Sec. 16. Tolling agreements and subpoenas. Sec. 17. Appeals. Sec. 18. Assessments. Sec. 19. Pilot project on automatic data transfer. Sec. 20. Penalty for late or incorrect reporting of data. Sec. 21. Required recordkeeping for natural gas plants. Sec. 22. Shared penalties. Sec. 23. Applicability to other minerals. Sec. 24. Entitlements. Sec. 25. Royalties on all extracted methane. 3. Onshore fossil fuel royalty rates The Mineral Leasing Act ( 30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) is amended— (1) in section 7— (A) by striking 12 1/2 and inserting 18.75 ; and (B) by adding at the end the following: (d) Periodic evaluation of royalty rates The Secretary shall establish a periodic process of evaluating increases in royalty rates to achieve a fair market value return for the public. The process should include: (1) publishing annually the average, weighted by relative production per State, of the top fossil fuel royalty rates charged by States for fossil fuels production on State-owned public lands; (2) evaluating triennially increases in the Federal fossil fuel royalty rates above the minimum rates required under this Act to match the production-weighted average of State royalty rates. The triennial review shall include and benefit from public participation through written comment, public hearings and other meetings open to all interested parties