Acequia Communities Empowered by Qualifying Upgrades for Infrastructure Act

3.0.0 2077 2025-12-05T09:14:09Z 2025-12-05T09:14:09Z Senate S S 2023-06-21 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2077 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-06-21T17:08:37Z Acequia Communities Empowered by Qualifying Upgrades for Infrastructure Act 118 4290 HR 2023-07-28 Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit. Identical bill CRS 2023-06-21 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2023-06-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000570 Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM] Ben Luján D NM R. N C001056 Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] John Cornyn R TX 2023-06-21 True Agriculture and Food Agricultural conservation and pollution 2023-08-17T17:15:20Z Agricultural insurance 2023-08-17T17:15:20Z Agricultural practices and innovations 2023-08-17T17:15:20Z Congressional oversight 2023-08-17T17:15:20Z Disaster relief and insurance 2023-08-17T17:15:20Z Floods and storm protection 2023-08-17T17:15:20Z Infrastructure development 2023-08-17T17:15:20Z Water use and supply 2023-08-17T17:15:20Z Agriculture and Food 2023-07-18T12:00:24Z

00 2023-06-21 Introduced in Senate 2024-08-13T15:48:35Z Acequia Communities Empowered by Qualifying Upgrades for Infrastructure ActThis bill specifies that agricultural producers who rely on acequia systems are eligible to receive assistance under the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program for all losses suffered as a result of drought, flood, or other natural disasters. Acequias, or community ditches, are community-operated and -organized water irrigation systems. The bill also provides that a special use permit shall not be required on Department of Agriculture (USDA) or Department of the Interior land for the (1) presence or use of an acequia or the use of the acequia's water, or (2) routine maintenance and minor improvements conducted by a community user or governing body of an acequia.Further, USDA must submit a report to Congress on agricultural producers who rely on acequia systems.

Acequia Communities Empowered by Qualifying Upgrades for Infrastructure Act Display Title 45 Acequia Communities Empowered by Qualifying Upgrades for Infrastructure Act 2024-07-24T15:21:34Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Acequia Communities Empowered by Qualifying Upgrades for Infrastructure Act 2024-05-24T13:38:42Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to ensure that producers who rely on acequia systems have access to drought protections, and for other purposes. 2023-07-15T02:44:09Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s2077is/xml/BILLS-118s2077is.xml 2023-06-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.