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    <item congress="119" measure-type="hr" measure-number="389" measure-id="id119hr389" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2025-01-14" update-date="2025-03-07">
        <title>Southern Border Farmers and Ranchers Protection Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119hr389v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2025-03-07">
            <action-date>2025-01-14</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Southern Border Farmers and Ranchers Protection Act</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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&nbsp;contributes to natural resource concerns or problems.</p>]]></summary-text>
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