Bill Text: TX HCR31 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Urging Congress to encourage the U.S. Department of Agriculture to revise existing policies that promote the waste of water after an irrigated crop has been declared a failure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-26 - Signed by the Governor [HCR31 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR31-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Urging Congress to encourage the U.S. Department of Agriculture to revise existing policies that promote the waste of water after an irrigated crop has been declared a failure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-26 - Signed by the Governor [HCR31 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR31-Comm_Sub.html
By: Springer (Senate Sponsor - Perry) | H.C.R. No. 31 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2017; | ||
May 1, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs; May 10, 2017, reported | ||
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 10, 2017, sent | ||
to printer.) |
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WHEREAS, Among the most urgent and costly issues facing Texas | ||
is drought, which recently has caused a number of crop failures on | ||
irrigated land; those occurrences have highlighted the necessity | ||
for policies that promote responsible water usage and water | ||
conservation; and | ||
WHEREAS, The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, managed by | ||
the Risk Management Agency of the United States Department of | ||
Agriculture, supports the economic stability of agriculture | ||
through its crop insurance program, which assists American farmers | ||
and agricultural entities in managing risk and the threat of | ||
natural disasters; in the event of a crop failure, however, current | ||
FCIC policy requires farmers to demonstrate good faith practices, | ||
which include watering the failed crop, in order to qualify for | ||
insurance benefits; and | ||
WHEREAS, The USDA could further help sustain the agricultural | ||
industry and our precious water resources by developing provisions | ||
that encourage water conservation when crop failures occur; now, | ||
therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby respectfully urge the United States Congress to encourage | ||
the U.S. Department of Agriculture to revise existing policies that | ||
promote the waste of water after an irrigated crop has been declared | ||
a failure; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
the secretary of agriculture, to the president of the Senate and the | ||
speaker of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the | ||
United States, to the chair of the House Committee on Agriculture | ||
and the chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, | ||
and Forestry, and to all members of the Texas delegation to Congress | ||
with the request that this resolution be officially entered in the | ||
Congressional Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United | ||
States of America. | ||
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