[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10113 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10113

 To financially assist certain agricultural producers in the State of 
          Texas with farming operations along the Rio Grande.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 12, 2024

Ms. De La Cruz introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To financially assist certain agricultural producers in the State of 
          Texas with farming operations along the Rio Grande.

    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 ``South Texas Agriculture Emergency 
Assistance Act''.

SEC. 2. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS ALONG 
              THE RIO GRANDE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall make a grant to 
the State of Texas, acting through the Texas Department of Agriculture, 
to provide assistance to agricultural producers in the State of Texas 
with farming operations along the Rio Grande who have suffered economic 
losses during crop years 2023 through 2024 due to the failure of Mexico 
to deliver water annually 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, and Supplementary Protocol signed 
November 14, 1944, signed at Washington on February 3, 1944 (59 Stat. 
1219; TS 944).
    (b) Amount of Assistance.--The amount of assistance provided to 
individual agricultural producers under this section shall be 
proportional to the amount of actual losses described in subsection (a) 
that were incurred by the producers.
    (c) Procedure.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall carry out the 
grant required under subsection (a) in the same manner as the grant 
required under section 102 of Public Law 107-206.
    (d) Appropriation.--There is appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $280,000,000 to the Department of 
Agriculture for purposes of carrying out the grant required under 
subsection (a).
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