# 119-hr-10411: To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to consider certain acreage not planted due to a lack of irrigation water to be eligible for prevented planting payments, and for other purposes.

119-hr-10411, To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to consider certain acreage not planted due to a lack of irrigation water to be eligible for prevented planting payments, and for other purposes., is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Hurd, Jeff [R-CO-3] (R-CO); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-10411
- Congress: 119
- Title: To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to consider certain acreage not planted due to a lack of irrigation water to be eligible for prevented planting payments, and for other purposes.
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-09-16
- Sponsor: Rep. Hurd, Jeff [R-CO-3] (R-CO)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Agriculture and Food
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-01

## Summary

**Expands prevented planting payments for acreage not planted because irrigation water was insufficient.** The bill would add clear eligibility rules, phased payment cuts for repeated shortages, and require regulatory and disaster‑decision updates to reflect irrigation supply losses. - Farmers and producers would be able to treat acres as prevented from planting if they reasonably expected insufficient irrigation water, had installed and functional irrigation infrastructure, and had irrigated those acres in at least one of the prior four crop years. - Acres experiencing repeated irrigation shortfalls would face stepped payment reductions: 50% cuts in years 5–8, 75% cuts in years 9–10, and 100% cuts in year 11 and beyond, with acreage hit by the 100% cut made permanently ineligible for payments. - The Secretary of Agriculture would be directed to revise 7 CFR 718.103 to cover lack of water at the source and to require the Commodity Credit Corporation to consult Farm Service Agency county committees and State technical committees when making disaster determinations.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Evans, Gabe [R-CO-8] (R-CO), 2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Expanded prevented-planting help for farmers: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would let the Department of Agriculture treat irrigated acres as "prevented from planting" for prevented-planting payments when five specific tests are met. The tests are: producers did not plant because they reasonably expected insufficient irrigation water that year; irrigati…
- Payment cuts for repeated prevented planting: cost, high. If enacted, prevented-planting payments for acres the Secretary treats as prevented from planting would be cut after repeated years. Payments would be reduced by 50 percent in the fifth through eighth consecutive crop years, by 75 percent in the ninth and tenth consecutive crop years, and by 100 pe…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-10411 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10411)

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- [119-hr-7613: ALERT Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7613)
- [119-hr-4075: Fire Weather Development Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4075)
- [119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4206)
- [119-hr-833: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-833)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-10411 (as of 2026-10-01).