Texas Agricultural Producers Assistance Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8344.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. De La CRUZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 82, May 10, 2024, Page H3006):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To catalog all existing U.S Department of Agriculture programs that can provide relief to Texas farmers affected by Mexico's failure to make obligated water deliveries.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 10, 2024 ↗

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  232 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8344, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8344

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 17, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  46db6f54750075b70a27e312e9bbe7fcc06f05b09597b0433a42329fc7bafd89

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of March 17, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8344, last updated March 17, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.