HR389Referred to Committee

Southern Border Farmers and Ranchers Protection Act

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Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-01-14
Introduced
2
Cosponsors
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Sponsor

Monica De La Cruz
Monica De La Cruz
Republican · TX · Representative
Votes with party: 98.2% (568 recorded votes)

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

2025-02-14

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Plain-English Summary

Southern Border Farmers and Ranchers Protection Act This bill directs the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to provide payments to agricultural producers to implement certain conservation practices in counties at or near the Texas southern border. In general, this Department of Agriculture program provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers and forest landowners to address natural resource concerns. Specifically, EQIP must provide payments to agricultural producers to implement conservation practices to address and repair damage to agricultural land and farming infrastructure that is in a county at or near the Texas southern border and contributes to natural resource concerns or problems.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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Agriculture and Food
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