Official Summaries

Texas Agricultural Producers Assistance Act

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to submit a report to Congress on USDA assistance available for agricultural producers in Texas related to Mexico's non-compliance with a 1944 treaty with the United States concerning water utilization.

Specifically, the USDA report must list all of the existing USDA authorities and programs that are or could be made available to provide assistance to agricultural producers in Texas that have suffered economic losses due to Mexico not delivering water to the United States in accordance with the Treaty on Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande, including the Supplementary Protocol.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 387 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 387

To require the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to Congress a report 
on available assistance to agricultural producers in the State of Texas 
  that have suffered economic losses due to the failure of Mexico to 
                             deliver water.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 14, 2025

Ms. De La Cruz (for herself, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Fallon, and 
Mr. Arrington) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to Congress a report 
on available assistance to agricultural producers in the State of Texas 
  that have suffered economic losses due to the failure of Mexico to 
                             deliver water.

    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 ``Texas Agricultural Producers 
Assistance Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON AVAILABLE ASSISTANCE TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS IN THE 
              STATE OF TEXAS THAT HAVE SUFFERED ECONOMIC LOSSES DUE TO 
              THE FAILURE OF MEXICO TO DELIVER WATER.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Committee on 
Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report that lists 
all existing authorities of the Secretary and programs within the 
Department of Agriculture that are or could be made available to 
provide assistance to agricultural producers in the State of Texas that 
have suffered economic losses due to the failure of Mexico to deliver 
water to the United States in accordance with the Treaty Relating to 
the Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the 
Rio Grande signed at Washington on February 3, 1944, and the 
Supplementary Protocol signed at Washington on November 14, 1944.
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